Author: Riya Kapoor

Riya Kapoor leads Sirius Star's hardware and infrastructure practice. Eight years in the Indian system integrator world have given her opinions about which laptop OEM ships on time, which printer brand the procurement team will hate three months in, and which UPS will fail first if the building's wiring is what it usually is. Her work spans Dell, Lenovo, HP, Apple, Samsung, Asus, Acer laptops; HPE ProLiant and Dell EMC servers; APC, Vertiv, Numeric UPS; HP, Epson, Canon, Brother printers; Logitech, Poly, Cisco AV; Hikvision and CP Plus cameras. Riya writes the hands-on procurement guides where she's already seen what breaks. She is based in Navi Mumbai. Believes the strongest argument for any IT spend is a working device on the Monday morning standup, and the second-strongest is a vendor who picks up the phone.