{"id":8348,"date":"2018-01-18T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zunesis.com\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2018-01-18T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:40:34","slug":"support-contracts-renewals-important-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccreativellc.com\/clients\/ndmtechstg\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/support-contracts-renewals-important-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Support Contracts and Renewals are Important for your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most organizations choose basic, enhanced, or premium support for the first three years of a hardware purchase. It is standard operating procedure for many IT organizations to purchase the warranty coverage alongside new hardware. However, these services can be added at any time via custom support contracts with your vendor.<\/p>\n

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Hardware Warranty vs. Business Support<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Whilst the hardware warranty may sound attractive, does it meet the needs of your business? A warranty only provides hardware support if a product or component is found to be faulty, within a certain period. There are no guaranteed response times, time-to-repair commitments, or software support.<\/p>\n

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While the warranty guarantees replacement of the faulty product or component, what will be the impact on your business when a hardware malfunction occurs? For example, if your storage is configured for high availability with RAID, will you be able to wait for a replacement disk to be shipped to you?\u00a0 If your business depends on the technology or you are experiencing downtime\u2014can your business afford to wait?<\/p>\n

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In addition, when a warranty replacement part does arrive, there may be no technical expertise provided, no installation and configuration assistance, and no commitment to return the system to the level of functionality and performance your business requires.<\/p>\n

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Is that what you\u2019re looking for? Or does your business demand something better? Business support is available to help maintain your IT infrastructure along with your hardware warranty.<\/p>\n

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HPE Pointnext<\/a> services are designed to allow you to concentrate on delivering business outcomes, relieving you from having to focus on maintaining\"HPE your IT infrastructure. We offer various options that allow you to choose the support that\u2019s right for your IT, your budget, and your business.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re currently relying only on hardware warranties, why not take a look at the following operational services, and see how they can make a difference to your business.<\/p>\n

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  1. HPE Foundation Care<\/a> is designed to keep your devices up and running, with HPE experts available to assist when there is a problem. Foundation Care reduces the amount of time your IT team needs to troubleshoot, monitor, and remediate your HPE servers, storage, networking products, and commercial operating systems and hypervisors, while maintaining required levels of availability within budget and resource limitations.<\/li>\n
  2. HPE Proactive Care<\/a> allows you to focus on your business by providing proactive, higher-value support that helps improve the overall availability and stability of your IT systems. Your entire infrastructure stack is supported with services designed to reduce the number of issues you experience and rapidly resolve problems should they occur.<\/li>\n
  3. HPE Proactive Care Advanced<\/a> (PCA) offers even more value with the addition of an assigned local Account Support Manager (ASM), providing access to specialist technical resources who can offer tailored advice and share best practices to help optimize your IT operations. Should you experience a complex incident or downtime, HPE will assign a Critical Event Manager (CEM) to manage, monitor, and coordinate the end-to-end process\u2014providing prompt and effective engagement of additional expertise if required\u2014to ensure the fastest possible problem resolution. With systems running smoothly, your staff can focus on new projects and strategic business initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Your devices are connected to HPE for 24×7 monitoring, providing you with a view of your IT from anywhere and on any device. Data received is scrutinized and a meaningful, tailored analysis provides proactive recommendations for firmware and patch updates. Plus when devices are connected, pre-failure alerts are sent to help you avoid outages. Calls can be automatically logged and parts dispatched to replace defective components\u2014often before you\u2019re even aware of the problem!<\/p>\n

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    Benefits of Support Contracts<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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    Renewing support allows your IT organization to effectively plan and budget, while ensuring your support coverage does not lapse, and helps to avoid late renewal charges.\u00a0 It also allows you to keep your systems up to date with current upgrades.<\/p>\n

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    Another benefit is the consolidation of renewal dates. As your IT environment continues to grow, Zunesis can help make the renewal process simpler and easier by consolidating renewal contracts and expiration dates, reducing the number of contracts and administrative costs.<\/p>\n

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    If you are a current Zunesis customer, once your initial support contract is due to expire, Zunesis will notify you within 30-90 days of support expiration, and, assist in helping you select a renewal contract to meet your current support requirements.<\/p>\n

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    As the dedicated Support Specialist for Zunesis, I\u2019d be happy to work with you to review your existing environment, and to develop a plan to ensure that you have the confidence your equipment has the protection necessary to survive in today\u2019s demanding IT world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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