MSPs must help the education sector with sustainable hardware supply lines
The demand for quality hardware has increased across all industries. Following the pandemic, when mass laptop distribution was urgently needed to cover an immediate switch to remote working, we’re now seeing a continued demand for remote technology as people have adjusted and thrived in a new normal of hybrid working.
However, where the demand for technology has only been maintained over the past few years, current hardware supply lines need help to keep up.
This is especially true for education establishments where a high demand for bulk technology and hardware often leads to the biggest budgeting challenges. Similarly, with eco-conscious green targets rolling out across all industries, IT operators in education are faced with a need to go green without overspending.
Education as a sector is crying out for support; between the challenges of tightening cybersecurity against bad actors, ensuring communication channels are operable for all involved, and giving quality laptops and computer hardware to the departments and students that require them, and all while saving enough in pennies for other department spending, the problems are there.
Thankfully, sustainable technology supply lines overseen by trusted managed service providers (MSPs) could hold the key to not just a smooth transition to accessible and greener technology but also a fast transition in the window between the end of the last academic year and the start of the next.The sustainable hardware demand across enterprise technology
In a recent survey of Microsoft, Dell, and other sector leaders, 40% of IT leaders believed that a fifth of all laptops bought by enterprises will be pre-used, refurbished models by 2032. End users were also argued to be the drivers of faster adoption by suppliers, not just due to an increased need for hardware but also as a means of reducing business’ carbon footprints.
