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Smart Procurement
Change is inevitable, but companies need to know when to change and how to strategise those changes in order to reduce unnecessary costs/overheads. Computer hardware is extremely depreciative and loses its value long before the end of its functional life. There are various obvious benefits when purchasing Pre-owned Equipment. Pre-owned Enterprise-Class ICT equipment can usually be purchased at a much lower price in comparison to a brand-new model that is similar or equivalent, thus reducing CAPEX. Furthermore, the pre-owned equipment can be configured individually to suit customers’ specific needs, as suppliers are usually able to configure additional parts to make the original machine perform at its optimum capacity, based on the customer’s requests. |
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Extending Product Life-Cycle
Basis Bay allows products to go through their true lifecycle, thus reducing environmental impact and avoiding unnecessary expenditure. Recycling Pre-owned IT equipment allows lifespan extension of designated End of Manufacturing Life (EOML) and End of Support Life (EOSL) beyond proprietary claims. The company’s maintenance strategies ensure that by consolidating a customer’s hardware and software support, they will be able to reduce cost, increase efficiency, improve productivity and streamline manageability.
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Green Data Centres
The Greening of a Data Centre means that the mechanical, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency with minimum environmental impact. Basis Bay’s Data Centres run in an environment that employ Green best-practices that are aligned to our customers’ businesses. Key design factors include a hot and cold-isle layout, cost efficient distribution of power across racks, liquid cooling systems, water efficiency and indoor environmental quality along with suitable energy-saving technology. The main objective of having a Green Data Centre is to ensure that it is sustainable. The GBI (Green Building Index) stipulates that a Green building should focus on increasing the efficiency of the resources used – mainly energy, water and building materials – while reducing the impact of the building on human health and the environment during the building’s lifecycle. |
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IT Infrastructure Optimization
Basis Bay aids in the optimisation of IT infrastructure, hence reducing CAPEX in areas such as Shared IT and Contact Centre Disaster Recovery services, virtualization, server consolidation and cloud computing. An IT disaster recovery plan consists of the precautions to be taken against the event of a catastrophe so that the effects of a disaster will be minimised and the organisation will be able to either maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions related to IT. Virtualization,on the other hand, is a technique of resource sharing that is based on the principles of dividing physical resources (hardware) and/or operating systems (software) for cost-control measures and more efficient utilisation of the resources. Another approach to optimising computing resources is server consolidation which is aimed at decreasing the number of individual servers. |
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Green IT Best Practices
As a Green business, we don’t just stop with preaching Green; we implement and practice Green standards that have been set in place at the very foundation of our company. Here at Basis Bay we adopt principles, policies and practices that impact the quality of life for our customers, vendors and employees positively. Our main objective is to spread the word and champion the cause, so going Green does not remain within the Basis Bay employee sphere. The Green dream is for our staff to take these practices home with them and indoctrinate those invaluable ideals to family and friends. |
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