Reduce IT Costs White Paper

In a recessionary economy, companies are reexamining expenses against a smaller bottom line and actively looking for savings throughout the IT organization.

IT departments are increasingly under pressure to justify:

1. The considerable capital expenditures attendant with hardware upgrades and
2. The OEM service and maintenance expenses that seem to increase every year.

This white paper details how OEM maintenance and regular IT hardware expenditures negatively affect the bottom line when viewed through the alternative approach of non-OEM (third party) support and maintenance, combined with deferred capital expenditures in computer hardware.

By examining IT support and maintenance expenditures at a theoretical company (based an actual examples), the paper illustrates savings versus expenses over a post warranty three-year period.

Significant savings of 40% to 60% are realized in the example, not only in non-OEM (third party) support and maintenance, but also in the deferment of CAPx for new equipment.

Other factors are also cited as reasons for CAPx deferment, such as Moore's law, which states that computing equipment gets exponentially faster and less expensive each year.

The implications demonstrate that considerable savings can be realized by many IT departments in both maintenance and support by deferring CAPx investments. These substantial savings are particularly attractive and worthy of further consideration in the current - or any - economy.

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