Budgets worldwide are constrained, and IT spend is not immune, falling under greater pressure than ever before. Companies are delaying hardware refresh cycles and forgoing premium brands to stretch their Rands further, sometimes to their own detriment.

“What many organisations don’t realise is that there is an easier, more cost effective way of ensuring that they don’t trade price for performance,” explains Elmari Keyser, end user computing specialist at Datacentrix, a provider of high performing and secure ICT solutions.

“Instead of having to opt for a cut-rate brand of desktop, risking equipment longevity and the availability of spares – greater value can be driven, at a lower cost, by switching processors. By going this route, a business can gain exceptional performance and power efficiencies, improve reliability and ensure optimisation for real-world collaboration and connectivity-driven productivity, but in a budget friendly manner.

“A step as simple as looking at alternative technologies, like processors, can save a business thousands of Rands per machine, potentially equating to hundreds of thousands at the enterprise level.” According to Keyser, Datacentrix is working closely with high-performance computing, graphics and visualisation technologies company, AMD in South Africa to help local organisations to take advantage of the cost and performance benefits offered by AMD products.

“Gamers are au fait with AMD’s processors and have been for a number of years, but it is with the launch of the latest generation of PRO A-Series Advanced Processing Unit (APU) that the company showed how it can deliver compelling performance that assists enterprise-level organisations to stay ahead of the evolving demands of business today.”

AMD PRO A-Series mobile processors offer a breakthrough APU architecture that features longer battery life, provides mobility to today’s unplugged workplace, is secure and manageable, and also optimised for collaboration needs.

“In fact, HP’s newest ProBooks, EliteBooks and EliteDesks are powered by the sixth generation AMD PRO A-Series processor, specifically designed to support growing businesses,” Keyser adds. “HP has also standardised on AMD for its own internal use, attesting to the incredible value offered by these processors.”
Datacentrix has joined forces with AMD, HP Inc. and Speedo, to explore how leading gear can help raise an organisation’s game. The event will take place on Thursday, 9 March at The Venue Green Park in Sandton. For more information email: amd@datacentrix.co.za