What are the biggest IT-related issues facing today’s small to midsized enterprise?
According to Poje, SMEs are forced to deal head-on with the challenges of minimizing costs and maximizing performance, while still ensuring business continuity. The realities posed by today’s current economic downturn, however, have considerably exacerbated the issues. “Companies today are under a cash and credit crunch,” says Poje. “Many need additional IT equipment, [such as] workstations, servers, and storage devices, for their businesses to expand and to become more efficient, but the cost of new IT equipment is significant.” Poje contends that quality preowned IT equipment provides an ideal alternative. “By using preowned IT equipment, companies can save up to 40 to 60% off of retail,” he says. “Most preowned IT equipment comes from Fortune 1000 companies where the lease has expired after one to three years of usage in a climate-controlled environment,” explains Poje. “Even after a few years, this equipment will easily handle almost every software application in the business envir
