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IT companies began to buy used information security equipment and network devices at Avito

According to Kommersant, IT companies are facing a shortage of storage systems, server hardware, hardware security systems, and corporate-level network devices. Many of them began to buy used devices from their hands, including information security equipment, routers and switches, at sites like Avito.

Representatives of financial institutions and various companies told the publication that they really began to buy equipment previously used by other bankrupt firms, as it is more profitable and more affordable now. After the purchase, they reconfigure the devices to suit their needs, and download part of the special software or firmware for work from torrents or use licenses to activate the necessary options that they had previously purchased and were not used. Spare parts (power supplies, expansion modules, fans, adapters, adapters and cables) for current equipment companies are now also looking for on ad sites, rather than ordering from vendors.

Market experts explained that many IT companies caught on late and only began to realize the current problems. Some of them were able to transfer some of their services to domestic software in half of March, as well as take care of buying domestic servers, storage systems and DDoS protection systems.

Since the beginning of March, many IT companies have been faced with the fact that they cannot now purchase all the network, server and storage equipment they need. They began to have various problems both in the development of current services, and in maintenance and the supply of spare parts for equipment under warranty. Commercial data center operators are facing a tenfold influx of customers migrating from overseas cloud services. This also imposes restrictions and delays on their work: there are not enough specialists and the previously purchased equipment in warehouses has almost run out to scale current services.

Since late February and early March, many foreign companies have ceased operations or temporarily left the Russian Federation, including AMD, Cisco, Dell, HP (HPE), Ericsson, Fortinet, IBM, Intel, Juniper, Microsoft, Mikrotik, NVIDIA, Nokia, Oracle, Samsung, Siemens, Sony, TSMC, Schneider Electric and others. For the most part, they did this because of US and European sanctions.

IT companies began to buy used information security equipment and network devices at Avito