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Lifecycle & Refresh

EOL frameworks, refresh-cycle TCO, when to replace, when to keep.

命 Lease, buy, or run it into the ground 5 min · published 2026-09-28 Three ways to pay for hardware, three completely different risk profiles, and a sales pitch attached to each. The right answer depends on things the vendor financing calculator carefully leaves out. A plain-language guide to the money decision underneath the lifecycle decision.
命 Depreciation is not a failure curve 4 min · published 2026-08-17 Finance sees a straight line to zero. Operations sees a bathtub. Both are looking at the same server and drawing different graphs — and most bad refresh decisions live in the gap between them. A field guide to making the two departments speak the same language.
命 The five-year refresh myth 4 min · published 2026-07-13 Somewhere a spreadsheet decided all server hardware dies at year five. It doesn't. The calendar is the laziest possible refresh trigger — here are the signals that actually tell you when to replace a box and when to keep running it.
命 When the server still hums but the vendor has left 4 min · published 2026-05-29 End-of-support is not end-of-usefulness. A framework for the keep/repair/replace decision that most teams get backward.