SMEs keep hold of old PCs
Apr 12 2011
Most companies do not replace their PCs after three years
Seven in ten small businesses fail to replace old PCs that they rely on to store business-critical data, research finds.
According to a study of 600 IT managers by research organisation Vanson Bourne, companies are increasingly abandoning the typical three-year refresh cycle of their PCs, with only 30 per cent sticking to a planned refresh cycle in the past three years and 18 per cent not even trying.
When asked what prevents them from implementing their plans to replace PCs, most blame the economic climate.
As a result, the average age of a work computer in the UK is five years and two months - twice the age of those used in German companies. The average PC is now more than a year and half past the date it was planned to be scrapped.
Some 40 per cent of employees surveyed find their work efficiency is compromised by events such as computer crashes and lost data. A quarter state that these events impacted their work ‘significantly’ or ‘very much’.
Claire Galbois-Alcaix of online backup provider Mozy says, ‘The economy has caused nearly every business to make hard decisions about spending but, sometimes, companies don’t realise what they’re risking by cutting back.’
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