F5 EOSL Deadlines in 2021 Do you have any F5 hardware (BIG-IPs, VIPRION blades, Herculons, etc.) running on your network? If so, you might want to check their End of Service Life (EOSL) dates because a number of F5 EOSL deadlines are coming up this year (2021). What is an F5 EOSL and why should you be concerned [...]
Juniper EOSL Deadlines in 2021 Businesses that are using Juniper networking hardware (e.g. broadband services routers, WLAN access points, services gateways, etc.) need to be aware that several Juniper EOSL deadlines have either recently expired or are due to expire in 2021. This is something you need to be concerned about because this means Juniper will no longer [...]
Dell EOSL Deadlines in 2021 - Are you prepared? Every Dell equipment, whether it be a server, storage platform, gateway, expansion enclosure, etc., will eventually reach its EOSL deadline. In fact, many of them have EOSLs scheduled this year. If you have an impending Dell EOSL deadline in 2021, you will want to read this post. What happens [...]
Worried about HPE EOSL Deadlines in 2021? A number of HP Enterprise (HPE) storage devices, disk enclosures, hyperconverged solutions, servers, and other IT equipment are due for End of Service Life (EOSL) this year. If you have one or more of these devices on your network and you’re starting to worry about costly OEM premium maintenance or equipment [...]
IBM EOSL Deadlines in 2021 Several IBM EOSL deadlines are due this year, including blade servers, M4 servers, compute nodes, etc. If you’ve got IBM devices running on your network or data center, you’ll want to know if the EOSL falls in 2021, so you can start weighing your options. Some of the IBM EOSL deadlines in 2021 [...]
Ignorance of the End-of-Service-Life or EOSL of mission-critical IT devices/equipment can be very costly. If you’ve got some Cisco devices running on your network or data center, you’ll want to know if the Cisco EOSL falls in 2021, so you can start weighing your options. Why you need to keep track of EOSL deadlines Immediately after an equipment [...]
How Effectively Consolidating IT Services Vendors Impact the Business When most IT leaders talk about vendor sprawl, they are typically referring to their applications—particularly in their cybersecurity programs. But an often-overlooked business challenge is the impact of vendor sprawl on the IT services needs of an organization. Whether it’s maintenance, asset disposition, field services, or IT projects—especially for [...]
Many organizations have had to tighten their budgets to make it through the current recession and unexpected shutdowns. The OEMs like Cisco, however, haven’t changed their forced refresh cycle in light of companies’ inability to spend freely on their already expensive data centers. Whether you’re ready to invest again in new equipment for your infrastructure or not, 2020 [...]
The OEM supply chain is significantly backed up, with some companies unable to provide dates for shipments. But that doesn’t mean the OEMs are pushing back their end-of-support-life (EOSL) deadlines. For those companies with EMC reaching EOSL in 2020, options are more limited than before. As it is, the OEM forced refresh cycle has companies looking for channel [...]
Juniper announced the end of Next Day Support for SRX240H2 and SRX650 on May 1, 2020−soon to be followed by End-of-Support (EOS) for SRX240H2 and SRX650 in the fall of 2020. With OEM supply lines dried up during the current crisis, companies are unable to refresh their critical Juniper equipment before support is lost. However, while OEM lead [...]
