Every budget dollar spent on hardware maintenance is a dollar not available for hardware, software, or staff. Although Hardware maintenance is critical to ensuring high-availability of business systems there is a powerful argument for affordable maintenance options.

In the technology industry the cost of equipment continues to fall year on year while the reliability of high-end systems has increased dramatically. Hardware has been modularised through the use of hot plug components, and repairs have been made simpler. Despite this vendor hardware maintenance prices have been something of an exception. While hardware has become more of a commodity hardware maintenance costs have remained unchanged and in many cases increased significantly.

Businesses are often forced to accelerate refresh cycles due to excessive maintenance costs when the equipment could remain viable for an additional 12-24 months.

Green Technology Management have access to a wide variety of used and refurbished enterprise-class hardware such as Unix and Intel based servers, SAN and storage disk, mainframes, racks, tape storage, communications equipment and many peripheral devices.

We also have a worldwide network of partners who assist us to source equipment giving customers access to cost-effective technology refreshes, capacity upgrades, spare parts and add-ons.

On-Site Sparing
Organisations willing to implement lean maintenance management through self-sparing can make rapid hard-dollar returns. Green Technology Management are able to tailor equipment sparing programs for customers providing access to an extensive pool of parts that can be held either on a customer’s site or at our facilities. Often multiple fully configured servers can be provided in a standby-spare capacity for less than the cost of an annual maintenance payment.

System Expansion and Replication
There are many scenarios where a customer may need to replicate or upgrade capacity on a legacy system. Often applications and operating systems are tied to very specific underlying hardware and compatibility can only be achieved by matching exact hardware specifications. This can often be the case in virtualised environments or for disaster recovery.

Green Technology Management maintains stock of many previous generations of equipment in addition to refurbished and ex-demonstration stock of current models.

Upgrades can include:

Manufacturers will often create a ‘planned obsolescence’ to get you to upgrade to new hardware and/or a longer contract. With Green Technology Management at your side, those instances of ‘planned obsolescence’ are not as costly as they once were. You can have continued access to back-up parts, support and service that the manufacturer is no longer willing to provide. We believe you should be empowered to make those upgrades when it’s right for your data centre, not when the manufacturer dictates it.

We are able to quote upgrades and replacements for almost any type of infrastructure please request a quotation from one of our experienced sales staff call us on 1300 66 45 12 or email info.au@tes-amm.com

Cost reduction utilising pre-owned infrastructure
With IT budgets constantly being stretched, organisations are looking for cost effective alternate solutions for implementing technology, especially for testing and development or low-utilisation systems. Many companies now recognise that pre-owned infrastructure is a viable alternative for meeting various operational requirements.

Green Technology Management assists customers to develop enterprise solutions utilising pre-owned equipment and offers maintenance solutions to support the infrastructure. For many customers the cost savings achieved with these solutions can mean the difference between whether or not a project gets across the line.

Additionally, it has been found that 75 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions released throughout the lifecycle of a typical PC are emitted before the computer is plugged in and the most effective way of limiting a piece of equipments carbon footprint is to extend its productive life to ensure extra equipment does do not need to be built. The pursuit of environmental sustainability provides many benefits for organisations and the environment.

Green Technology Management sells refurbished enterprise-class hardware for significantly less than the cost of new hardware allowing customers to “do more, for less”. Give us a call to find out how on 1300 66 45 12 or email info.au@tes-amm.com