If you work in a data center, manage or own one, then you know that for every piece of hardware that is OEM maintenance contracts that go with them. Like the hardware themselves, these contracts are not inexpensive, however, can be less expensive than any downtime and the steady loss of business or revenue that goes along with it.
It is with this in mind, the data centers of many people using the services of third party hardware maintenance (TPM). For most, third-party maintenance can allow four types of business value, including cost reduction, cost reduction, business agility and reduce risk. In a previous article I talked about the author of three ways in which third party maintenance services of third parties may reduce costs. Here I give you 3 ways that third party maintenance services of third parties can help avoid costly together.
No fixed costs to buy and store spare parts and hardware replacement. If you plan on repairing hardware in your data center, you better have access to replacement units and spare parts. Unfortunately, this can be an expensive given the cost of the hardware itself and the space required to store this equipment. A third party provider of maintenance actions and hardware facilities for customers, essentially eliminates this need entirely.
The ability to delay capital expenditures. Today more and more data centers are keeping their hardware beyond standard OEM cycles of soda. Doing so may delay the capital expenditure associated with the acquisition of new and expensive. In fact, the most expensive or mission critical hardware is, the tendency is to keep replacing front. UNIX servers can be kept up to or even beyond 6 years, tape storage systems maybe 5 years, and maybe a Windows-based server will be maintained for 3 years.
The costs associated with downtime. Data center downtime can be a very bad thing. If you are an installation of third parties that lose money and the worst of valuable customers. If your data center is a company focused then you lose the money associated with applications or equipment not available to the service or product offering targeted to customers. A recent IDC report suggests that the average cost of downtime can average $ 70,000 per hour! A third-party maintenance provider that responds quickly with qualified engineers, and has the parts and replacement units lists can help keep costs to an absolute minimum downtime.
