Refurbished Hardware: Save Time, Money And Keep Your Options Open
Our offerings in terms of new hardware, software and solutions portfolio continues to grow in line with the business needs of today. You may or may not be aware that refurbished infrastructure is still widely purchased by many businesses nationwide. Here are just a few points where you can find benefit in going with refurbished:
Save money
Refurbished is a way to save money. The best analogy to use here is to compare to a new car. Once it leaves the floor, the showroom or the yard, it now has a decreased value due to it now having a previous owner. Who has not bought a used car before? And what are the leading points to sway a person in buying a used car over new? It may have a couple more kilometres on the clock, maybe even a tiny scratch from a trolley, but the features and performance are at a more swallowable price than stretching the budget for new. Perhaps the job can just be done by something a year or two older?
Save time
If I’m going to compare to vehicles, let’s compare this: typically do you expect to wait longer for the keys to be in your hand for a second hand car or for a new one to come from plant? Does that mean that new cars are not in stock? No, but maybe it can take two to three weeks or even months for the one you’d like. Use refurbished to your advantage. We carry a range of parts in our warehouse and utilise parts from other sources to build each server or solution to your required spec. Parts in stock can often be delivered within just a couple of days from order.
Keep your options open
You keep your options open with refurbished hardware. It might be that you have a server sitting quietly in the corner that’s only required every now and again. If it’s not under hardware support we can:
- arrange a maintenance contract for you or
- provide replacement parts that are no longer available new.
Another example is an Intel system – small or large – that after running for a little while just needs additional CPUs or a memory upgrade. Due to time, these may not be available to purchase new anymore. Pressure on the budget to make this server(s) last until the next refresh may be prevalent. Or a push for budget to be brought forward and more budget provided next time round, so that a purchase of a system fully configured is purchased to save the second and third year performance heartache of not being able to maximise the configuration because the parts are no longer orderable new. Your options are practically unlimited due to our access of in country and overseas stock of vendors.
Keep uniformity
We understand there are circumstances that require similar or identical hardware in your environment. This requirement can sometimes be for a number of years. It could be a test and development system where the system has to be the same or very alike. In that situation the new expense may be tough to have approved and, in a “do more with less” driven economic state, the premium price of a new system to perform this task eats away at the budget. A refurbished system for your Disaster Recovery (DR), can provide the same result and gives you the opportunity to match your configuration and performance and software license group at a possibly more acceptable price point.
