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November ‘22 EoSL Dates for Your Enterprise Servers, Storage & Network Hardware
November ‘22 EoSL Dates for Your Enterprise Servers, Storage & Network Hardware By Brian Kjera, Top Gun Technology The world’s most efficient IT ops (or ITAM) pros will track enterprise IT hardware EoSL dates because these “triggers” are essential to managing IT budgets, especially in preparation for support renewals and [...]
Q4-22 EoSL Dates for Your Enterprise Servers, Storage & Network Assets
Q4-22 EoSL Dates for Your Enterprise Servers, Storage & Network Assets By Brian Kjera, Top Gun Technology Many hardware asset managers or IT operations professionals track data center hardware EoSL dates because, EoSL dates are essential to managing IT budgets, especially in preparation for support renewals and during periods of [...]
Data Center IT Hardware Maintenance RFP Content that Yields Accuracy & Completeness from Your Responders
Data Center IT Hardware Maintenance RFP Content that Yields Accuracy & Completeness from Your Responders By Therese Williams, Top Gun Technology Sourcing and Supply Chain departments, working in collaboration with their internal IT partners and business partners, can drive significant savings by structuring a formalized vendor evaluation (RFP/RFI) process that [...]
September ‘22 EoSL Dates for Servers, Storage & Network Hardware
September ‘22 EoSL Dates for Servers, Storage & Network Hardware By Brian Kjera, Top Gun Technology Tracking EoSL dates for your servers, storage and network hardware is essential to managing IT budgets, especially in preparation for support renewals and during periods of inflation. When IT Asset Management (or portfolio management) [...]
Don’t Ignore Your Clients’ Need for Legacy IT Infrastructure Support
Don’t Ignore Your Clients’ Need for Legacy IT Infrastructure Support By Chris Miller, Top Gun Technology As an IT solution provider, you’re likely very focused on selling subscription-based cloud, security and “Managed Everything” services; however, are you overlooking opportunities to boost revenue and add essential value within your clients’ physical [...]
Discover the Value of Outsourced Specialty Support for IBM Z Mainframes & z/OS
Discover the Value of Outsourced Specialty Support for IBM Z Mainframes & z/OS By Mamie Sheen, Top Gun Technology While most large enterprises have discovered the longevity and importance of mainframes as a critical component of their computing strategy, the manufacturer is hard-wired to push its tech-refresh strategies. This is [...]