Sep 27 New Service Announcement – XSi Cisco Lifecycle & Asset Assurance!

Posted at 20:38h in Healthcare IT: Legacy Hardware Support, IT Ops: Cisco Smart Licensing & Entitlement Risk, IT Ops: Cisco SMARTnet Alternatives by Todd Bone

By now, you have undoubtedly heard the stories of Cisco conducting entitlement audits to verify compliance or impose penalties on those who are unable....

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Sep 20 What Cisco and Traditional TPMs Don’t Want You To Know; Why We Need a Better Maintenance Solution

Posted at 20:52h in Healthcare IT: Legacy Hardware Support, IT Ops: Cisco Smart Licensing & Entitlement Risk, IT Ops: Cisco SMARTnet Alternatives, IT Ops: Independent Hardware Support Value by Grant Patten

Educate them. But don’t OVER-educate them,” that was a former boss’s direction before pitching my former company’s solution to a client. ...

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Sep 13 Top 3 reasons why IT Procurement, Data Center Ops, and ITAM should collaborate

Posted at 20:57h in Hardware Lifecycle Management, Healthcare IT: Legacy Hardware Support, Hybrid Hardware Support Value, IT Ops: Independent Hardware Support Value, IT Procurement & ITAM Teams: Best Practices by Todd Bone

From our past blogs, you’ve likely begun to understand Hardware Lifecycle Management, as well as the fiscal impacts from adopting a Hybrid Hardware...

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Sep 06 Healthcare IT – Best Practices in Hardware Lifecycle Management

Posted at 21:03h in Hardware Lifecycle Management, Healthcare IT: Legacy Hardware Support, IT Ops: Independent Hardware Support Value by Todd Bone

As a designated “Premier” contract holder and hardware support provider, let’s start this informational blog with a few definitions to “level-set” comprehension...

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Aug 23 Helping Systems Integrators to Easily Quantify the Savings Potential Created by Hybrid Hardware Support Models

Posted at 21:10h in Federal Agencies: Legacy Hardware Support, IT Ops: Independent Hardware Support Value, Prime Contractors: XSi Program Solutions by Doug Krueger

n our first blog for Systems Integrators, we introduced the potential cost reductions possible for your federal clients, by taking a closer look at the best ...

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Aug 16 Why are Data Center Ops Experts Now So Rarely Involved in Hardware Support Vendor Vetting?

Posted at 21:16h in Hardware Lifecycle Management, Hybrid Hardware Support Value, IT Ops: Independent Hardware Support Value, IT Procurement & ITAM Teams: Best Practices by Todd Bone

What really happened over the last ten years? Prior to current practices, data center hardware and hardware infrastructure experts were heavily involved...

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Aug 09 Alternative Maintenance for Cisco Equipment Has Been Severely “Hobbled” – Are You Aware of the Impacts to You & Your Independent Maintenance Provider?

Posted at 21:21h in Healthcare IT: Legacy Hardware Support, IT Ops: Cisco Smart Licensing & Entitlement Risk, IT Ops: Cisco SMARTnet Alternatives, IT Ops: Independent Hardware Support Value by Grant Patten

For many years, the independent hardware support...

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Aug 02 Specialty IT Support: Hardware Lifecycle Solutions for Systems Integrators

Posted at 21:31h in Federal Agencies: Legacy Hardware Support, Prime Contractors: XSi Program Solutions by Doug Krueger

There are few sectors that are in as great a need of IT cost containment as are the agencies and departments of the federal government. Systems Integrators...

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Jul 26 Explore the FACTS Around Counterfeit Hardware & Parts – The OEMs are Building Only Half the Picture

Posted at 00:00h in Counterfeit Equipment Compliance, Hardware Lifecycle Management, IT Procurement & ITAM Teams: Best Practices by Todd Bone

Firstly, the independent IT support industry for hardware, parts and hardware maintenance has been in business since the 1980s and became possible...

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