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Why HP is Worried about Third Party Maintainers

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Recently HP’s anti-third party maintenance data sheet crossed my desk. Why is a multi billion dollar hardware behemoth worried about third party support providers? The fact that this datasheet even exists is proof that a large number of forward-thinking, innovative companies are looking to third party maintainers for customized, high-value, lower cost data center support services. In fact, more than two-thirds of all companies leverage a third party maintainer for IT support today.

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Scott is vice president of global operations at Akibia.

BLOG ARCHIVE

• 2010 (5)
  • March (1)
    • Why HP is Worried about Third Party Maintainers
  • February (1)
    • Has the Sun Set on Flexible Support Options?
  • January (3)
    • You Inherited Your Cisco Infrastructure, But Do You Know Why You are Still Buying It?
    • Your Workers are Surfing While Snacking on a Big Mac - Time to Revisit Managing Your End-Point.
    • Ensuring Security in the Virtualized Environment
• 2009 (34)
  • December (1)
    • Monitoring Via the Cloud
  • November (2)
    • Sun Makes More Changes Amid Uncertainty
    • Sky High Cloud Chatter
  • October (2)
    • Improving Vulnerability and Patch Management
    • A Couple Quick and Easy Green IT Steps
  • September (3)
    • Don’t Put off Until Tomorrow…
    • Boston's Missing Email Case Has Many People Asking Questions about Digital Forensics
    • IT Needs Turbo Compliance
  • August (3)
    • Take Full Advantage of System Monitoring
    • Implement, educate and enforce strict Social Media usage policies – in that order
    • Preparing for a Return to Growth? It’s Not Too Soon to Make Process Improvements
  • July (2)
    • Death by A Thousand Processes: Getting Compliance Right Requires a Change in Thinking
    • Wrest Control of Your Data Center Back From the OEM
  • June (3)
    • Getting Ready for Cloud Computing
    • A Letter to Ralph Szygenda, the CIO of General Motors
    • Lax Web Site Security: The Site Owner's Responsibility
  • May (3)
    • The Checklist Approach to IT Security is Failing You
    • Financial Strength of Your Vendors…Show Me the Money!
    • PCI DSS v1.2 and its Requirement from WEP to WPA Wireless Encryption
  • April (4)
    • The Near-Term Impact of Oracle Buying Sun
    • On the Path to the Cloud... Walk Before You Run
    • CIOs Need to Manage Up, Broadcast Successes
    • Consolidate Support Vendors?
  • March (4)
    • A Potential Sun Acquisition - Impact on Service
    • April 14 is Decision Day for Those Running Microsoft Exchange 2003
    • HIPAA Revitalized in 2009 and Beyond
    • Ten Steps for the Mass Data Security Law
  • February (7)
    • Tightening Budgets and Their Impact on IT Security
    • Recent Breaches Remind us to Focus on Security
    • The Training You Need Vs. The Training You Receive
    • Emphasizing Virtualization Security
    • DNS Audits: A Practical Guide
    • Practical Green IT
    • "Practical Use" Fills the Gap Between Idea and Implementation

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