IT Asset Optimization ("Tech Refresh")
Contemplating a Tech Refresh? Consider these questions before making the decision... This StraTech customer saved over $100K in maintenance fees as a result of an IT infrastructure update! Read more... |
Are your IT assets over three years old? Can your IT infrastructure effectively meet today’s demanding capacity needs? Are costly maintenance fees for end-of-life systems draining your IT budget?
If so, it may be time to optimize your IT assets via a technology refresh.
Technology Refresh = Risk Reduction
As technologies age, the law of diminishing returns takes over, resulting in technology that becomes costly and inefficient as well as a significant liability to the business. A tech refresh presents an opportunity to not only reduce the level of business risk, but improve operational efficiency that can increase your competitive edge, save money, boost productivity, and better prepare you for what lies ahead.
A tech refresh can also:
- Improve utilization and ROI on IT investments and data center expenditures
- Enhance the value of IT to the business
- Advance the operational excellence of the data center
- Leverage existing assets to full potential
- Improve quality of service to end-users
- Adhere to compliance mandates
- Increase accessibility of information
- Facilitate migration to newer architectures and delivery models with ease
- Take advantage of the latest and greatest technologies
Improve While You Move
Developing a tech refresh strategy that improves operational efficiency is more than just a hardware or software upgrade; it’s an opportunity to consider how you are using your tools as much as what tools you are using. It’s also a chance to improve service levels while moving to a new IT environment that alleviates current pains and addresses future needs.Don’t just upgrade your current IT headaches. Help your business innovate and grow by taking the time to cast off the constraints of technology and business agility. Our highly-skilled StraTech Professional Services Team can show you how.
Support for Hardware and End-of-Life Systems
StraTech MultiCare Hardware Support Services is a support option specifically targeted at organizations in need of maintenance coverage for multiple hardware platforms and older, dated systems. The MultiCare program offers:
- Multivendor hardware maintenance to include Dell, IBM, and Sun running Solaris, Linux and Windows, plus EMC storage
- Hardware maintenance for all servers and storage systems regardless of manufacturer, platform, or age — even end-of-life systems
- Consolidated contract management
With single-source accountability, multivendor support, and a full-time staff of experienced engineers, StraTech ensures your IT asset optimization efforts will prove reliable, sustainable, and maintainable for a long time to come.
To Tech Refresh or Not? Things to Consider.
- How old is the asset? Is it end-of-life? Is it still useful?
- Is the asset capacity maximized? Is that hindering business?
- Is asset management too complex? Could the environment be simplified?
- How much are your administration costs?
- What would happen to the business if this asset went down?
- How much are the support and maintenance costs?
- What is the cost of a new infrastructure?
- How risky is it to continue to use the asset? How risky is upgrading it?
- Do you have adequate resources to support the new asset? The old asset?
- What is the availability of the current asset? What are the causes of any system downtime?
- Are there new features that are lacking in your current environment? Will these features increase efficiency and optimize the asset?
- Are you upgrading your application? Will your current infrastructure work with the new version of the application?
