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Rental and short-term capacity
Some capacity should never be bought. A three-month migration, a seasonal peak, a proof of concept that might be abandoned — buying hardware for any of those means owning it for five years to solve a problem that lasts one quarter.
When renting beats buying
Migration overlap
You need the old and the new platform running at the same time for weeks. Rent the overlap instead of buying twice.
Project and seasonal peak
Load that arrives on a known date and leaves again. Rent it, return it, and keep the capital.
Proof of concept
Before a platform decision worth six figures, run the workload on the real hardware for a month.
Replacement cover
A failed node with a long replacement lead time. A rental unit keeps the service up while the RMA runs.
How rental works
- Minimum term
- One month, then monthly. Longer terms reduce the monthly rate; the rate card is issued with the quotation.
- Delivery
- Typically five to ten working days, configured to your specification and with out-of-band management enabled.
- What is included
- Hardware, rail kits, power cords, remote management, hardware replacement on failure, and collection at the end of term.
- What is not
- Data centre space, power, connectivity and software licences. Those stay with you or with your provider.
- Purchase option
- If the workload turns out to be permanent, rent paid can be set against the purchase price. The formula is in the rental agreement, not invented afterwards.
- Return
- Media are sanitised or destroyed on return and a certificate is issued per serial number.
Rental units come from a managed pool held for this purpose. It is the one place where equipment sits waiting — and it is rented, never sold as new.