A smart way to evaluate your hardware maintenance expenses

Influence of maintenance costs taking up your entire budget

Whether you’re a Fortune 100 company or just starting out, if you have enterprise IT hardware, you need maintenance. In short, you have a storage infrastructure to maintain and protect, and if it goes down, so does your business.

Yes, quality maintenance contracts are essential to keep your business running smoothly, but if you’re like most businesses. For example, you spend 70-80% of your IT budget on maintenance to “keep the lights on.”

In fact, as the rate of cloud adoption grows and on-premise data centers shrink. Plus, you probably feel even greater pressure to maximize the data you choose to keep so you can release it.

And increase your budget to invest in next-generation technologies. Above all, the most important thing is safety.

In the same way that logic dictates that a traditional maintenance contract is no longer a viable option for the hybrid future. Such that you also face the reality that you cannot operate with an adequate amount of risk if you choose to go without one.

After all, when your company’s equipment fails, you need a plan to fix or replace it, before an outage impacts your business. You need a maintenance strategy.

But what if you could just change the price tag?

This post will evaluate maintenance-related costs for EMC hardware, specifically. In this sense, our research and experience have shown that this OEM, although having earned its premier status in the storage market.

It has been unnecessarily increasing the price of maintenance, with the result leaving customers to seriously consider various cost-saving alternatives, including third-party maintenance.

Is it worth the cost? How EMC Substantially Earned Return on Profit Above the Market Average

Since its inception in 1979, EMC has quietly established itself as a leader and innovator in the enterprise storage market. It first started as a memory maker. Soon after, through storage for IBM mainframe devices.

And it finally launched its first stand-alone Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array in 1990.

As the leader in system-agnostic disk storage, EMC has made a name for itself in the midst of consistently delivering innovative, high-performance, industry-leading storage technology. Without a doubt, this name was deserved.

Above all, EMC created the world’s first terabyte storage solution, coined the term NAS (sorry NetApp). And Flash storage integrated into your arrays before any other company.

That said, the reputation that EMC has carefully built is probably why you considered buying your hardware for your data center by putting it in the first place.

Bigger brother – The largest technology acquisition in history

Big Brother just got bigger On September 7, 2016, Dell finalized its acquisition of EMC. At $67 billion, this acquisition is the largest technology acquisition in history.

The purchase cost is nearly five times as much as Symantec’s purchase of Veritas, and twice as much as the ARM deal in 2016.

The purchase of EMC also led to a new name, Dell Technologies (informally called Dell-EMC). In other words, the largest privately controlled technology company in the world.

Prior to the merger, EMC alone held more than 18 percent of the storage market share. Together, the two companies hold nearly 30% of the market in the third quarter of 2019, according to IDC3.

However, this domain means problems if you are working with budgets. Not only does it put you at the mercy of Dell technologies for updates and ongoing support. In other words, it locks you into upgrading the equipment.

As a privately held company, Dell-EMC could lose this incentive to remain responsive. That is, you could have little choice but to jump in line if you want to continue to use market-leading hardware.

Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way

The second part of this post continues: Evaluating your hardware maintenance expenses – part 2

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