IT personnel are constantly faced with budgetary constraints in achieving their goals and completing projects. Refurbished IT hardware is often considered as a means to cut costs, but for which applications does it make sense to implement used servers and parts? We’ll explore the scenarios in which it makes sense.
The most common use of used servers at any given corporation is within their test and/or development environments. System administrators are less concerned about failures within this setting as it won’t result in the wrath of dozens, hundreds or thousands of users. Even hardware manufacturers will reach out to the used IT hardware industry to purchase equipment when they need systems to benchmark against their own equipment or to use in their test labs to measure compatibility. This saves these manufacturers from the uncomfortable dialogue of asking their competitors for hardware or worse yet paying them for it. It also often saves them thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars per acquisition.
The second most common instance where used hardware is acquired is when older systems have been abandoned by the manufacturer. Often the...
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