Pricing constraints and advantages are two categories
purchasing managers may choose low-end and mid-end equipment in IT, server,
cloud computing, phone and network switches, routers and modems. Labor cost,
technological capital, employment benefits and insurance have created nature of
market comparative advantages between one country and others. In a certain
objective conditions, a hardware maker cannot reduce its fixed cost from
previously mentioned contributions to material prices and other business regulations;
therefore, those companies may file bankruptcy or be acquired by foreign
companies. Most of those disappeared companies are in developed nations. Most
winner companies come from developing and emerging markets. Even those survival
companies, in developed nations, have struggled to maintain their smaller
market shares and thinner profit margins.
Security and scalability of network operations from phone
companies to internet service provides are first two standards to assure
customers’ needs and expectations. Customers look for reliable service
companies that only play a transporter, but not a robber or theft steal
information or reading information over voice and data networks. Today’s
financial and business communities, excluding governmental agencies, have
depended on up-to-minute data and information flows for different business,
economics and financial purposes. Customers of banks, financial firms and
business organizations have stored their sensitive and important data such as
social security number, credit card numbers, home address and other personal
information. Besides those personal data and information files and records,
public and private companies have communicated daily sensitive and confidential
information for internal and external usages. Business deals, bidding, business
secrecy, and other intellectual properties may be exchanged or transferred over
phone lines, fax lines, and data lines from one department to other
departments, from one office to other offices, from one country to other
countries. How to test scrutiny, security and safety for newly purchased
equipment and devices is not only a business matter, but also national
security.
When new technologies can convert most of physical formats
of products and services into digital streams and data files, business
organizations have become more alert on security policies, personal
communication and business communication standards among employees and
customers. Employees can sell sensitive and confidential information to rival
companies on purchase or by chance. Security and confidential policies are
undertaken, but business organizations also take other serious steps of
monitoring employees’ activities as well as limiting employees using the
company’s computers for personal matters as well as bring in copy devices to
the workplaces.
