CEDaCI Refurbishment survey

Co- financed by the European Regional Development Fund, the CEDaCI Project is developing the circularity solutions to decrease the environmental impact of the IT equipment used by the Data Centre Industry. All the key findings and deliverables of CEDaCI Project will be made publicly available on cedaci.org to help the DCI in their journey towards the circularity. Your details and the information collected will remain confidential.

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* 1. How would you describe your business at best:

Small Medium Business

Enterprise

Telco

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Do you own the hardware?

Leasing

Bought

Cloud (pay for use)

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Is your datacenter on-premise or off-premise?

Off

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* 4. How often does your organization refresh its network infrastructure?

Every 3 or fewer years

Every 3 to 5 years

Every 5 to 8 years

Every 8+ years

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* 5. How often does your organization refresh its server and storage devices?

Every 3 or fewer years

Every 3 to 5 years

Every 5 to 8 years

Every 8+ years

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* 6. What is the average service life of your servers in your organization?

Less than 3 years

3 to 5 years

5 to 8 years

8+ years

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* 7. After upgrading our IT infrastructure, we:

Reuse our old hardware

Recycle our old hardware

Sell our old hardware

Donate or give away our old hardware

Throw away our old hardware

Other (please specify)

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* 8. What is usually the reason for upgrading?

Financial reasons, depreciation value is 0

Equipment is end of life

Security related

New technology

Advice from the manufacturer

Other (please specify)

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* 9. How do you maintain your current infrastructure?

Our own IT team handles this, self sparing, monitoring, designing, upgrading and disposing of old equipment

We outsource everything to an IT organization that handles this

A little bit of both

Other (please specify)

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* 10. What could you see as the main challenges that using pre-owned hardware could help you solve:

Environmental aspect, reduce waste and achieve sustainability target

Economical, cost containment

Maintaining legacy environments

More freedom to choose my equipment

Other (please specify)

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* 11. Do you have experience in reusing IT hardware and if so was it good or bad?

Good

Bad

No experience

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* 12. What is the biggest downside for you when buying new hardware?

High pricing

Long lead times

OEM decides when I have to upgrade

Expensive support contracts

Other (please specify)

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* 13. What are your highest concerns with using pre-owned hardware?

Reliability of the hardware

Security

Don’t have the technical knowledge in our organisation

Other (please specify)

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* 14. How many times can the equipment be upscaled and re-used before completely failing? Within a life cycle of a single component, how many times (on average) can it be re-used before it fails? Please specify.

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* 15. Can the components be interchanged between different models and also between model generations? Please specify.

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* 16. Do you have spare hardware that you are looking for to have a second life at another company?

Yes

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* 17. Would you be interested in a 'hardware-as-a-service' concept that consists of paying a monthly fee for pre-owned hardware including services and upgrading to a newer version of hardware after a certain period of time?

Yes

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* 18. Would you be interested in participating in a pilot with premium refurbished network equipment, tailored to your specific requirements?

Yes

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* 19. If yes, please provide your information and we will contact you shortly

Name

Company

City

Country