ReCircular IT Products
For those wanting to embark on the Circular Journey, one of the first starting points is to look to the existing pool of hardware in the marketplace rather than consuming new. Use your ReCircular Credits™ to not only fill your requirements but also demonstrate substantial savings on costs from the OEM. Refurbished hardware isnt what you think it is
Optical Transcievers
- A study of over 175 OEM contracts showed optics made up over 20% of the bill of materials.
- Organisations are under siginifcant pressure to reduce capital expenditure.
- OEM's do not manufacture the optics but are made by suppliers in China / Malaysia
- Garnered as 'The Biggest Rip Off In Networking' by Gartner. Mark up's were seen in the '000's by the OEM's
- In general the OEM's try to have clients avoid this avenue through FUD. This however contravenes both the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act and Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Pre-owned genuine optics still honour both the manufactures warranty and step into discounts of 90%+ from list price. Some examples below
CPU & RAM
- Much the same as Optics many of the manufactures do not produce their own CPU or RAM. However this is simply rebadged or deemed "OEM Approved"
- Mark up's are significant also ranging in the '000's.
- All are sold state devices that require no moving parts and thus mean time between failure is significantly longer
- Full range of ECC UDIMM modules (unbuffered ECC), registered RDIMM modules, and LRDIMM, or Load Reduced DIMM modules.
The evidence was compelling on using pre-owned optics. The units we received were fully tested and over 50% cheaper than what we might acquire from the OEM's. We haven't seen any failures. Aside from that the cost difference meant we could keep twice as many spares if there were issues.
- Kartik (Acting Infrastructure Manager) Australian Health
Pre-Owned Circular IT Products
Reduce Your CO2 Footprint, Reduce Your Capex, Reduce Your Lead Times and Reduce the time to replace hardware. Utilising refurbished pre-owned hardware can help in a few ways. You can either keep some of the products longer in the field by still acquiring the same model. Alternatively to that you can look to reduce your maintenance cost by keeping spares in place for yourself.
You can safely ignore any preconceptions on the technology being second best. If you look at the mean time failure rate between the devices you can see that actually devices are more likely to fail being brand new. Our testing and certification means that we would have ruled out any opportunity for failure when it reaches you.
Our hardware is all back by our unique 'Advanced Replacement Lifetime Warranty'
What are these products?
Networking Switches
Servers
Storage
Laptops
Pre-Owned Typical Questions
Wont preowned fail quicker?
This is actually the contrary to many known models of performance over time. Well known models like the bathtub curve actually point to the highest risk of failure being at the start, but with our warranty we've got you covered
Do I have to buy new licenses for preowned hardware?
No, the the first sale doctrine was established by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus in 1908 and has been reaffirmed and upheld in subsequent court decisions and statutory law. The doctrine is codified in Section 109 of the Copyright Act of 1976, which states that the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord.
Will I be able to add these units onto my maintenance contract?
All preowned units are elligbile for maintenance. We do have to carry out checks to ensure that devices can be added
Want to understand the difference?
Let us know the types of products you are interested in and our team will schedule a time to call and walk through the options