IT Leaders found themselves rapidly adapting and responding to business disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Park Place has observed a growing trend over the past few years where companies are consolidating their IT teams and moving to “hire-on-demand” for non-critical resources. For a variety of reasons, cost effectiveness primarily, companies are retaining their most highly skilled and specialized resources and reducing the number of lower-skilled resources.

“Fixed” and “Fast” are especially important when you have a data center hardware issue. You need it fixed fast and just as important, you need it fixed right. The first time. Park Place Technologies is so confident we’ll get the fix right the first time, we guarantee it. 

Let’s compare original equipment manufacturers (OEM) support and Park Place Technologies’ third-party maintenance (TPM).

The IT industry continues to grow and change at a rapid pace with an emphasis on cloud computing and data consumption. OEMs like Dell EMC continue to innovate and create products to address critical storage needs that align with budgets.

Nothing’s changed—except maybe everything. Park Place Technologies remains the global leader in hardware support, but we’ve been doing a lot of extra work behind the scenes, too.

When you read that an IBM is cutting 10,000 jobs or a NetApp is cutting its workforce, with the job cuts being in Europe, you are right to think about what it may mean to the IT and tech industries … and your IT data centre.

Countless IT organizations need to rebound from a tough 2020, rationalize and streamline infrastructure, and reboot strategic projects that may have stalled during the pandemic. But budget realities could intervene—these efforts will be derailed if “keeping the lights on” concerns cost too much.