ReluTech Blog Posts
EOL vs EOSL: What’s The Difference?
When an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) announces that a product is approaching its End of Life (EOL) or End of Service Life (EOSL) it can be difficult to determine what this news means for you and your data center environment. How do you figure out what next...
Why ‘One Size Fits All’ Doesn’t Work In The IT Industry
When it comes to legacy service offerings, we’ve all heard the old joke, “You can have any color you want as long as it’s gray.” Though that may get a laugh out of some, more than likely it can bring out tears in others. As technology continues evolving at a rapid...
Shiny, New IT Equipment Is Always Cool … But Is It Really?
Recently, one of my favorite movies, Fight Club, put something into perspective for me as it relates to our business. It’s the idea of the single-serving world we live in. In the movie, Edward Norton’s character describes his life in the context of everything...
Starting With The End in Mind: Part 4
In this article series, we are unpacking ideas and strategies for reducing the duplicative cost of running data center infrastructure while building and provisioning one’s cloud infrastructure (also called the Migration Bubble). This article in particular investigates...
Why The Alternative Maintenance Industry Is Booming: Part 2
Cloud adoption, budget decrease, and customer awareness are three things driving IT professionals to leverage alternative maintenance. For better or for worse, COVID-19 has made a massive impact on just about every industry. With so much unknown surrounding what...
Starting With The End in Mind: Part 3
Over the next three articles, I’ll discuss the individual components of each solution designed to bust the migration bubble. To recap, the migration bubble describes the duplicative cost associated with operating on-prem data center infrastructure while building,...
My Assets are Killing Me: Part 2
Are My Data Center Assets Worth the Book Value? IT leaders or their colleagues in finance often ask about the value of their installed IT assets. With ReluTech being the recognized worldwide leader in evaluating used IT equipment, it would seem like a fairly...
Informative Interview with Director of Infrastructure at a Telecommunications Company
Introduce yourself: Your position/title, what your company does, and what you do at your company. I’m the Director of Infrastructure and Data Centers at a telecommunications company. We primarily focus right now on UCaaS offerings, Unified Communications as a Service....
Why the Alternative Maintenance Industry Is Booming: Part 1
In my first article, I discussed why enterprises are adopting alternative maintenance, also known as “third-party maintenance”, at a rapid pace. I outlined three major reasons: Cloud Adoption Budget Decreases Customer Awareness Today, I want to talk about...
Starting With The End in Mind: Part 2
How has ReluTech adopted AWS’ “working backwards” philosophy? In my last article, I mentioned the working backwards philosophy; a value creation method where the problem solver begins at the finish line and reverse engineers the process back to its original position....