Server Parts for Portugal

A small market with a large amount of cable landing on it

Portugal's position on the Atlantic has made it a landing point for international connectivity out of proportion to the size of its domestic market, and that has attracted data centre investment on a scale the country has not seen before. For organisations that have quietly run their own infrastructure here for years, the arrival of that capacity is not primarily a competitive threat. It is a change in what they are measured against.

The benchmark moves without anyone deciding it should

When modern, well-instrumented facilities operate locally and publish their availability figures, those figures become the reference point inside every organisation nearby. A restore time that was perfectly acceptable when the comparison was theoretical starts to look slow when the comparison is a facility down the road that anyone can price. Nothing about the existing estate has changed; the standard it is held to has.

The awkward middle period

What follows is usually a multi-year assessment: whether to migrate, what to migrate, what it would cost, what would be left behind. During that assessment the existing platform carries the business exactly as before, while being subject to more scrutiny than it has ever had. That is the least comfortable moment for it to be running without a parts entitlement, which is precisely the position most estates of that age are in.

What ICD supplies through it

Components across Dell PowerEdge and Dell EMC, HPE ProLiant and MSA, Lenovo ThinkSystem and System x, Cisco UCS and networking, and IBM Power and Storwize, weighted toward generations past OEM end of support. Matched to the installed configuration rather than the model name, tested, serial-verified, one to three years of warranty.

Supplying an estate that has to keep proving itself

Express courier from our Cairo warehouse with the documentation prepared before dispatch, and the expected window confirmed per consignment. Quotes are in US dollars against the specific machine, because an estate under comparison cannot afford a part that arrives and does not fit.