A 12-person Pune MSP ran Motadata AIOps, ManageEngine OpManager Plus and SolarWinds for 60 days across 40 SMB clients. Field-tested alert correlation, India support, and INR pricing for an MSP mix.
A 3PL ops postmortem from a 12 site Zebra MC2200 rollout. Why a firmware variant slipped past SOTI MobiControl, what it cost, and four rules I would send back to Day 0.
By Arjun Mehta, Device Operations Lead, Sirius Star Last updated 29 May 2026 Pradeep is the CFO at a 220-person Pune SaaS firm. Rs.78 Cr revenue, ARR around Rs.62 Cr. Two weeks ago his IT head dropped a 180-laptop refresh quote on his desk. Rs.1.05 Cr, all upfront, internal-accruals-funded. The same Monday the CEO walked…
By Arjun Mehta, Device Operations Lead, Sirius Star Last updated 25 May 2026 Last quarter an IT head at a Mumbai pharma company sent me his refresh request, again. Forty laptops, mostly i5 8th-gen units bought in 2020, all past 5 years, three already replaced twice on motherboard failure. His CFO had rejected the request…
What is Device-as-a-Service in plain language What DaaS actually bundles (and what stays with you) Real Indian DaaS pricing for a 100 to 1,000 device fleet Who DaaS is for: the 5 fleet-shape tests Who DaaS is NOT for What a sane DaaS contract looks like What DaaS replaces line by line FAQ If you…
Pitch DaaS to your CFO with the 8-slide deck, TCO math, and risk-reversal language Indian IT heads use to get approved on the first meeting.
By Arjun Mehta, Device Operations Lead, Sirius Star, Last updated 19 May 2026 National insurer device management at the 2,500 device scale is not a procurement problem. It is a logistics problem dressed as a CapEx conversation. The CFO of one national insurer we work with stared at a Rs.21 crore four-year laptop refresh quote…
By Arjun Mehta, Device Operations Lead, Sirius Star, Last updated 17 May 2026 Last quarter we audited a 280-person Andheri pharma exporter whose IT manager spent his Saturday morning reimaging six laptops by hand. His MD wanted to roll out DLM with in-house IT support. The MD’s exact question was, “If we bring Sirius Star…
By Arjun Mehta, Device Operations Lead, Sirius Star, Last updated 17 May 2026 On this page Why “DaaS sounds expensive” is a sticker-price illusion The DaaS TCO 500 devices comparison table The four hidden costs DaaS bundles into one bill Where the “we will just buy them” number quietly leaks DaaS TCO 500 devices: a…
DaaS vs laptop leasing are not the same thing, even when every second reseller in India pitches them like synonyms. Leasing is a finance contract wrapped around a laptop. DaaS is a managed-service contract wrapped around an entire device lifecycle. On a 200-machine Indian fleet the choice changes your monthly outflow by approx Rs.3 to…