What’s Inside the Briefcase?
The Briefcase represents Network Hardware Resale’s entry into the blogosphere—our opportunity to engage in an online conversation about the networking industry and specifically, the growing market for pre-owned equipment and third-party maintenance. There are a lot of questions and controversies surrounding the secondary market and we plan to offer our unique perspectives while dispelling myriad myths and misconceptions along the way.
Our goal is to help our thousands of customers worldwide as well as prospective customers, partners and industry observers gain fresh insights into the changing network landscape while offering pragmatic advice for maximizing constrained technology budgets during challenging economic times. That’s a pretty worthy goal, especially now that everyone is being asked to do more with less. Fortunately, over the past two decades, we’ve learned a great deal about how to build and support best-of-class networks without overwhelming support teams or overburdening budgets.
There’s never been a better time to rethink traditional network procurement and support strategies. To that end, we’ll question conventional wisdom, challenge forced-upgrades from OEMs and share real-world examples from a growing global cadre of network-savvy organizations.
To keep the conversation flowing, I’ll ask various members of the NHR family to provide their thoughts and ideas as well as their latest take on issues that we believe are crucial to business leaders and technology executives. As a result, our Briefcase blogs are apt to take many different forms—news, suggestions, observations, customer stories, analysis, rebuttal. We also welcome your feedback along with suggestions on topics you’d like us to address. We’re always looking for creative ways and new ideas that break the mold when it comes to building and maintaining leading-edge networks that drive successful businesses of all sizes, kinds and types.
Again, welcome and let’s get the conversation started.
Tags: IT budget, network procurement, OEM, Secondary Market, support strategies, third-party maintenance