Workstations and servers supplied, maintained, and replaced on a schedule, for a monthly fee instead of a capital purchase every few years.
The practical benefit is that equipment stops aging out quietly. Machines get replaced on a known cycle, warranty coverage stays current, and you are not running critical work on a seven-year-old desktop because replacing it never made it into a budget.
Why the refresh cycle matters
Hardware does not fail on a schedule, but it does get slow on one. A machine that was fine three years ago is now costing somebody fifteen minutes a day, which nobody logs as a problem because it is not broken.
Putting equipment on a known replacement cycle takes that decision out of the budget cycle. It also means the fleet stays consistent, which makes support faster and imaging simpler, and there is never a machine running an operating system that stopped getting security updates.
What hardware as a service covers.
