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SMBs Incur High Costs on Old PCs|
- By CXOtoday Staff, Jun 26, 2009 1447 hrs IST
- Tags : SMB, Cost Cutting,
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If a new finding by a research firm, Techaisle is to be believed, then SMBs that hang onto their PCs for more than three years in hope of saving money during the downturn are actually setting themselves up for significant increases in maintenance and repair costs, as well as security and system failures. The study points out that older PCs cause up to a 58% increase in security breaches.
According to the study, 26% of small-sized businesses and 43 % of medium-sized businesses plan to keep their PCs longer than normal even though the average SMB IT budget grew 4.6 %. Adding the averages (small/medium business) for maintenance ($326/$401), upgrade ($99/$98) and out-of-warranty service ($120/$210) costs for PCs older than 3 years, small businesses will pay $545 and medium businesses $709 on average to keep those PCs running.
33% of SMBs faced hard-drive failures in their older systems against eight % with newer systems. In addition, motherboard failures affected 14 % of older PCs compared to 4 % of newer PCs. Forty-nine % of those surveyed experienced power supply failures after 3 years compared with 11% before that time. According to the study, 26% of small-sized businesses and 43% of medium-sized businesses plan to keep their PCs longer than normal even though the average SMB IT budget grew 4.6%.
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