I recently read an article from Gartner on how to reduce IT spend. Although, they had some great points, I think they missed a mark on a few key way to save money. Today, IT budgets are being pinched, and many companies are asking their IT Departments to do more with less. To help with this ongoing challenge, here are five ways to stretch your IT Budget:

Refresh your data center with a flexible Hardware-as-a Service (HaaS) consumption model through Vista Financial Services. Trade-in your current or aging infrastructure and use it as a down payment for the next generation Data Center. Instead of a large upfront CAPEX purchase, preserve your cash through a much smaller monthly OPEX model. There are many HPE solutions available that can be tailored to fit your exact data center needs. Adding hardware as you grow can easily be co-termed with your existing lease and we will simply adjust your monthly payment. 

We are proud to announce Vista has been promoted to Gold Distributor status within HPE Replacement Parts Distribution Program.  As one of only a handful of replacement parts distributors in the country, Vista is honored to receive this designation and pass along all the cost and efficiency benefits to our customers.

Attention all HPE blade customers, MSPs & service providers!  Are you ready for one of the most disruptive product end-of-life announcements to come along in decades?  That’s right, after more than 15 years of market share dominance, HPE is officially discontinuing its c7000 blade architecture.  There’s no need to panic.  Yet.  End-of-Sale for the blades and enclosures isn’t until January 1, 2020.  But that’s only a few months away, so if you haven’t started working on a strategy, attend our up-coming webinar to better understand your options. 

HPE c7000 chassis and Gen10 blades will be going End-of-Sale at the end of this year.  If you’re like most HPE blade customers, you aren’t ready to do a large fork lift upgrade to a new platform.  Vista IT can help you extend the life of your c7000 blade infrastructure long after the end of the year.  We take strategic inventory positions on HPE servers prior to them going end-of-sale so we are able to provide new blades long after you can no longer get them anywhere else.  For example, we have new BL460c Gen9 in-stock, even though they went end-of-sale over a year ago and currently have over 150 new Gen9 and Gen10 blades in-stock that can be configured-to-order.

Discover which HPE storage solution makes the most sense for your business. In this webinar we'll provide an overview of HPE's top storage platforms along with a side-by-side comparison and use-case analysis. We'll also discuss how HPE InfoSight can predicatively reduce risk with a comprehensive approach to data integrity.

Vista IT Group is excited to announce we have been elevated in status to an authorized HPE Replacement Parts Distributor. As one of only a handful of replacement parts distributors in the country, Vista is honored to receive this designation and pass along its benefits to all of our customers.

Vista IT Group announced today it has been elevated to Silver partner status in Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) strategic Replacement Parts Business (RPB) program. 

Part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Technology Services (TS) Business Unit, the RPB program supports a network of HPE Authorized Parts Resellers who lead the marketing and sales efforts of Certified HPE Genuine Replacement Parts in the North American business partner and end-user eco system. “This elevation in status is a testament to our growth and strategic alignment with HPE’s supply chain,” said Jeff Stevens, President of Vista IT Group. “We are thrilled this new status will further complement our already vibrant HPE solutions practice.”

This is a public service announcement for all potentially effected HPE customers, service providers and business partners.

HPE sent an Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) critical update notification in early September that we have been notified is causing degraded iLOs in certain customer environments.

The goal of this article is to provide an overview of the options and configurations available with the HPE 3PAR 7000c family of storage arrays. We’ll cover node upgrades, controller cards, expansion enclosures and more. We’ve also provided an expandability matrix below.