It’s no secret that supply chains have struggled to fulfill the demand for IT hardware.
The build up to today’s severe supply chain shortages could be seen as early as the summer of 2019, when manufacturing delays caused many end user devices and some data center hardware to sustain weeks-long delivery delays (a brief wait by today’s standards). What we couldn’t have known back then was that a global pandemic would soon exacerbate these issues with manufacturing shutdowns, parts and labor shortages, and disruptions to every aspect of how we conduct business.
Unpredictable time-to-markets have tremendous impact
Nowadays, it’s not unusual for hardware manufacturers to delay the time-to-market (TTM) of their products by upwards of 14-16 months. These extended delays impact your business’ ability to deploy new technology, causing:
Inaccurate capacity planning
Underutilized infrastructure assets
Missed sales opportunities
Customer satisfaction challenges
Limited scalability
With large scale, often global infrastructure that is continuously growing and changing, organizations like yours can’t afford to wait for supply chains to fix themselves.
Component shortages expected to continue at least through 2023
For chipsets, the most heavily constrained data center component, shortages are expected to last for the foreseeable future, and it may be years before supply returns to a pre-pandemic normal. Chip shortages are causing a lack of availability for the products needed to bring manufacturing plants online, which then causes a lack of online plants able to produce more chips.
Component shortages are preventing organizations from completing crucial revenue-generating data center initiatives. While this aspect of the supply crisis may be out of your hands, you can implement effective strategies to minimize these shortages’ impact on your business.
With the right partner, integrating large-scale data centers can be easy
Integrated data center solutions give you the precision, consulting, and quality control you need to deploy your data center equipment quickly and effectively. By working with a trusted integration partner, you can leverage a concierge approach of project management, procurement, and supply chain and logistics management to ensure your large-scale projects remain on schedule and issue-free.
In this ebook, you’ll discover how integrated data center solutions (IDCS) can improve the time-to-value (TTV) of your complex data center deployments and help you mitigate supply chain issues – all while being predictable, repeatable, scalable, and high quality.