IT Management

A one-page device refresh policy your CFO will sign at the FY capex review: refresh cadence by role, Section 32 depreciation maths, residual buy-back, the exception rule, and a paste-ready template.

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…

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 7 July 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…

Pradeep, a procurement head at a 350-person Mumbai pharma facility, signed his last bulk PO in 2019 to 80 Dell Vostros with “pan-India onsite included” baked into the unit price. Three months later, two units in Coimbatore failed. The “onsite” turned into a 9-day RMA cycle via a tier-2 partner. The post-mortem found approx Rs.3.2…

DaaS vs laptop leasing are not the same thing in India. Leasing finances the hardware. DaaS runs the whole device lifecycle. Here is the rupee math, the hidden line items, and a CFO decision flow.

By Vikram Rao, Enterprise Hardware Analyst, Last updated 5 July 2026 To buy laptops in bulk in India without overpaying, ignore the headline list price and negotiate four numbers instead: reseller trade margin, warranty bundle, freight + onsite SLA, and refresh-aligned residual value. On a 100-machine PO, getting those four right typically saves approx ₹6…

Running laptops past refresh date can cost a 500-laptop Indian fleet Rs.42-58 lakh a year in hidden expenses. Real numbers, fix paths, fleet math.

Dell Latitude vs Lenovo ThinkPad for bulk orders in India: real TCO, warranty terms, reseller margins from 200+ enterprise deployments.