Category: Industry View

The three decisions most often made wrong in the first year out of warranty; what actually determines how many years a server has left (not its deployment date); four supply lines for discontinued parts; and the identity problem created by replacing a system board.

Whether a quote can be itemized per unit; what “four-hour response” actually measures; how in-warranty equipment should be scoped; why an inaccurate asset register makes an inaccurate quote; and where the parts for your equipment physically are.

The biggest risk in a data center move is not transit — it is the power-down and power-up, because mechanical drives that have run for years fail cold starts at a much higher rate. Preserving disk order and array metadata, staged power-up, and the mixed-brand subcontracting problem.