Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @08:18AM from the sometimes-it's-better-and-costs-less-to-stick-with-proven-hardware dept.

Ben Blair is CTO of MarkITx, a company that brokers used commercial IT gear. This gives him an excellent overview of the marketplace -- not just what companies are willing to buy used, but also what they want to sell as they buy new (or newer) equipment. Ben's main talking point in this interview is that hardware has become so commoditized that in a world where most enterprise software can be virtualized to run across multiple servers, it no longer matters if you have the latest hardware technology; that two older servers can often do the job of one new one -- and for less money, too. So, he says, you should make sure you buy new hardware only when necessary, not just because of the "Ooh... shiny!" factor" (Alternate Video Link)

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Duh by HornWumpus · 2014-07-22 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Used hardware vendor says rack space is free...run your data center on Pentium 3s. News at 11.

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My company... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-22 08:26 · Score: 5, Funny

...is on an "upgrade" cycle. All equipment with red LEDs needs to be replaced with equipment with blue LEDs, at least on the front face of the equipment.
The CEO toured the data center recently and wanted to see blue LEDs on everything.
Really Slashdot? Really? by Tomsk70 · 2014-07-22 09:26 · Score: 4, Funny

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