Dec 18, 2019 | Assets & Maintenance, LaSalle
In an ideal world, a maintenance contract provides the assurance that the assets essential to running your operations, from IT equipment to building infrastructure, will be well-maintained. Without the right management, though, maintenance contracts can feel...
Nov 13, 2019 | Assets & Maintenance, LaSalle
Modern IT environments are complex. In addition to operating the data centers that support their important applications, today’s organizations must also manage an expanding number of cloud computing services, defend against constant security threats and keep tabs on...
Nov 1, 2019 | Assets & Maintenance, Equipment Leasing
In many capital equipment leases, the devil is in the details. It’s time-consuming not only to fully review the leasing company’s terms, but also to find suitable financing options and determine any applicable taxes. Plus, there’s a lot at stake:...
Jul 30, 2019 | Assets & Maintenance, Equipment Leasing, LaSalle
Supply chain management is one of the biggest cost centers for healthcare providers. According to a Cardinal Health and SERMO Intelligence survey of 150 hospital decision-makers, it ranked as their second largest expense in 2015, behind only labor. By 2020, it could...
Jul 8, 2019 | Assets & Maintenance, Cloud, Internet of Things
In the search for more flexible and cost-effective IT operations, many organizations have moved toward hyperconvergence. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) unifies all computing, storage, and networking within a single highly virtualized platform, which can help...
Feb 11, 2019 | Assets & Maintenance
Influential economist Adam Smith famously wrote about the “invisible hand” of the market, which referred to how self-interested actions could benefit an economy as a whole. Data centers are IT’s version of the invisible hand – many were originally built to support the...
