The 50 Shades of the Enterprise Tech Gray Market

You can save a bundle of money buying redundant or noncritical gear from the gray market, but a lot of risk is involved Last week, I dug into a few of the benefits of buying IT gear from the gray market and working with less-expensive support contracts. Although it’s true that in working with less-supported […]

Certified Pre-Owned IT Hardware for Service Providers and Managed Cloud Companies

Telecommunication service providers and managed cloud companies live in a fast-paced, highly competitive market. Demand for compute power, speed, storage, security and reliability is at an all time high while budgets continue to tighten. For example, in the 2016 Trends in Storage report from 451 Research, author Henry Baltazar boldly predicts: “Flat to declining budgets […]