hardware lifecycle management

A hardware refresh has always been one of the more significant line items in an IT budget, but for most organizations it was at least predictable. You planned a three to five year cycle, provisioned accordingly, and budgeted with reasonable confidence. What's changed recently is that predictability itself has gone away. Market changes mean that, in some cases, quote validity [...]

Have you struggled with rising hardware costs lately? You're not alone. Between chip shortages, tariff uncertainty, and the Broadcom-VMware licensing shake-up, IT teams are rethinking everything they thought they knew about hardware lifecycle management. On April 1, 2026, StorMagic hosted a roundtable discussion titled "The Modern Refresh: How to Make Your Hardware Lifecycle Live Longer." Industry experts gathered to [...]