EOSL is a budget decision.
Make it with evidence.
The OEM end-of-service-life letter is a sales document, not an engineering finding. This session gives IT leadership the board-ready version of the counterargument: what the failure curves actually show after EOSL, which risk controls make extension auditable, and how the budget math lands when refresh moves to your calendar. Delivered by the practitioners who run post-EOSL estates every day for a managed IT services practice. Sessions run under the two principles every WUC engagement runs on — Exceptional Service and Strategic Engagement — and every one is available as a private rerun for your team, with your estate’s numbers on the table.
What the session covers.
- What the EOSL letter says versus what the failure data shows — annualized failure rates on mature enterprise hardware.
- The risk controls that make extension defensible: sparing strategy, firmware baselines, and the audit trail.
- The budget math: refresh deferral modeled against support savings, with ranges from documented engagements.
- Presenting it upward — the one-page case that survives a CFO and an auditor in the same meeting.
Working material, not slideware.
EOSL Extension Strategy for CIOs: Webinar Brief
Every session ships its working material — the frameworks, worksheets, and documented ranges the practitioners actually use — because Strategic Engagement means your team can interrogate the reasoning, not just admire the conclusions. Request the brief and it arrives with the private-rerun offer attached.
Session materials follow our methodology standards — documented sources, ranges rather than point estimates, client environments anonymized. Model the economics with the infrastructure savings calculator. Operating practices referenced align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and guidance from CISA.
Ready for the private version?
Request the brief, or book this session as a private rerun for your team — your calendar, your estate’s numbers, and the three biggest overspend and risk signals in your current contracts surfaced along the way.