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.

DMSO category set to expand in 2021 to help customers tame the chaos left after 2020 We’re approaching the holiday season here at Park Place headquarters in Cleveland. It’s a time when we start looking back on the achievements of the past several months and…

For IT pros involved in digital infrastructure management, one of the most frustrating routines can be asset inventory. If you upgrade a server, you have to note the details, such as product identifier and other life cycle information within your system of record, whatever that may be i.e. spreadsheet or other internal method.

According to Gartner, typically moving to third-party maintenance provide savings of up to 40% versus support prices from the manufacturer. Don’t wait until EoSL for Hitachi VSP G1000 and G1500 storage systems to take advantage of these savings and plan now to extend their lifecycle.

This is remarkable penetration of the basic third party maintenance messaging—that TPM, as it’s known, is a lower cost, higher performing option when compared to DIY data center maintenance and OEM contracts.

If you’ve invested in tape backups, congratulations. You made a good decision, and you probably took into account the greatest advantage of tape for backups—the long lifespan the hardware can enjoy when it benefits from exceptional maintenance.

Not sure how long the HPE Integrity BL870c i2 will be with you? No problem. Take advantage of our short-term contracts, so you won’t be tied down.

Alternative, third party maintenance isn’t new to the India market, but some providers have so far overlooked the subcontinent. Park Place Technologies, however, was an early entrant and we’ve been working with local and multinational brands in India for years.