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A concise list of Third Party Maintenance Acronyms
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The future of Hard Disk Drives
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Compare and Contrast SAN and NAS
Five key considerations before going “all-in” on Cloud Computing
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6 common IT Support pitfalls to avoid.
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Keeping your Data Centre covered – a guide to handling support renewals
Your guide to support renewals: What to do when data centre coverage is ending?
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How understanding the difference between refreshing and upgrading your data centre can save you money.
The less obvious approach to keeping your Data Centre up to date can save money and the planet.
Why use a third-party to source your HP parts?
Third-party HP support vs. sourcing HP parts yourself.
How to avoid the OEM ‘Blame Game’
What’s the OEM ‘Blame Game’?
A History of the Third Party Maintenance Market
How TPM grew to become a genuine alternative. IT directors know just how costly it is to purchase data centre assets. As such, they expect those assets to la...
Don’t write-off data centres yet.
The death of the Data Centre has been greatly exaggerated.
6 Reasons to choose Third Party Maintenance over OEM Services
Why Choose TPM?
What is Co-Term Support?
Co-Term Support - How to escape multiple contract renewal dates.
Understanding EOSL
End Of Service Life (EOSL): Your guide to understanding this hardware milestone
Why Tape Storage Could be Essential for your Business.
Don’t count tape out. There could still be a place for it in your storage model. Recent advances in big-data analytics and artificial intelligence have creat...
How to avoid paying for back-dated maintenance charges by using a TPM
Avoid Backlog Pay (Backdated Maintenance) with Third Party Support.
The difference between EOS, EOL, EOA and EOSL
EO = End Of - but End Of What?
Support 24/7 Cisco Shared SupportPac?
What is Cisco Shared SupportPac? SupportPac is a way of getting Cisco support through a Cisco partner, its also known as Cisco Partner Support Service or (PS...
How much longer for Spinning Disks?
Spinning Disks haven’t spun their last spin. They may have been around since the early days of computing but modern, spinning Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) will re...
How to get the most cost-effective support for your Cisco Network
Third Party Maintenance provides full coverage for your Cisco Network at a fraction of the cost.
Things to think about when changing TPMs
Changing TPMs? Consider how best to protect your IT equipment and your budget Is it time to change TPMs? You’re not alone. Before you renew with your current...
A Beginner’s Guide to Data Centres.
Back to Basics: What is a Data Centre? We almost always refer to Support 247 as a third-party support provider. But a supporter of what? Well, we are a suppo...
Answers to your FAQs.
The main things to know about Support 27/7 and Third Party Maintenance. At Support 27/7 we help companies save money in and around their data centres, specif...
What is 3rd party maintenance?
What is Third-Party Maintenance? Third-party maintenance (TPM) is hardware support for network, servers and storage usually in the form of a maintenance cont...
Best practices for hardware procurement
Whether you’re beginning a data centre transformation programme or just trying to get your next application server provisioned, hardware procurement can be a...
HPE announces exit of Russia and Belarus
After suspending shipments to and sales in Russia and Belarus in late February, HPE has decided it is no longer tenable to continue operations in Russia and ...
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