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Talking Certified Pre-Owned Equipment With Arrow

November 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Arrow Electronics is one of the three master distributors of IBM Power Systems machines and related storage in North America, and it also has decades of experience selling secondhand equipment as well as new gear through its partnership with IBM.

Recently, Arrow has partnered with IBM so its resellers can offer their Power Systems and Storage customers certified pre-owned equipment that has been put through the remanufacturing processes of IBM’s Global Asset Recovery Services business. This is now the sole means by which Arrow is helping its resellers bring CPO machinery to Power Systems and Storage shops that, for many …
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Reliability: An Added Value Of IBM Certified Pre-Owned

August 23, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are many different kinds of reliability that are important in IT infrastructure. There is the obvious one that has to do with the literal quality of the hardware engineering, testing, and manufacturing processes as well as the quality of the systems software that runs atop servers or storage.

But the other kinds of reliability that are equally important is knowing that the manufacturer is standing behind the equipment, supporting it whether it is new or certified pre-owned, in the event that something goes wrong. And as Murphy’s Law tells us and as all system administrators know full well, something …
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Driving System TCO With IBM Global Asset Recovery Services

September 9, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

When economic times are uncertain, that means by necessity that IT budgets are also uncertain, and saying that IT is the core of the business and that software is eating the world does nothing to change these hard, cold, capital facts. And that is why in these times people often turn to used, refurbished, certified pre-owned, or even remanufactured IT equipment instead of trying to get the acquisition of a PC, laptop, a smartphone, a switch, a storage array, or a server by the bean counters in the accounting department.

This is no different than what many of us experience …
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Talking Certified Pre-Owned Equipment With Arrow

Reliability: An Added Value Of IBM Certified Pre-Owned

Driving System TCO With IBM Global Asset Recovery Services

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