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Hardware prices are making refresh decisions harder.

If your clients have retired Intel or ASUS NUCs, they may still have value.

Get up to $200 credit toward new NUCs with the Carbon Systems NUC Refresh and Recycle Program.

Start here: https://www.carbonsys.com/nuc-refresh-and-recycle-program

A new router ban is forcing a bigger question: how much do we really know about the hardware sitting inside business networks?

Turns out the boring box with blinking lights had lore.

Who knew?

Read more: https://www.carbonsys.com/news/2026/5/18/why-the-overseas-router-ban-is-bigger-than-just-routers

Why the Foreign-Made Router Ban Matters for Business Hardware — Carbon Systems The foreign-made router ban signals a broader shift in business hardware procurement, where supply chain trust, compliance, standardization, and security now matter as much as performance.

RAM pricing has a bigger impact on hardware costs than most people realize. When memory prices move, quotes, margins, configurations, and refresh budgets can all shift with them.

The best response is not chasing the lowest price in the moment. It is building a hardware strategy that stays consistent when the market does not.

https://www.carbonsys.com/news/2026/5/15/blame-it-on-the-ram-why-hardware-pricing-is-a-wild-ride

Why RAM Prices Make Hardware Costs So Unpredictable — Carbon Systems RAM pricing is one of the biggest drivers of hardware cost volatility, affecting business desktops, laptops, procurement timelines, and margins. Understanding memory price fluctuations helps organizations plan refresh cycles, maintain hardware standards, and avoid costly performance compromises.

Great week at ChannelPro Chicago.

Always good to spend time with partners, friends, and the MSP community. We also had the chance to catch up with our partner Acronis, which is always a highlight.

Special thanks to Joel Zaidspiner for putting together such a strong event and making everyone feel welcome.

Already looking forward to the next one!

ChannelPro Network Acronis

For Carbon Systems partners running NUCs:

At some point, every small-form deployment hits the same question. Keep patching aging units, or replace them before they become a problem.

We’ve opened a refresh window through May 31. Trade in existing Intel or ASUS NUCs and apply that credit toward new deployments.

Start here:
https://www.carbonsys.com/nuc-refresh-and-recycle-program

Not a partner yet? Talk to us.

Acronis just added another round of integrations to help connect the tools MSPs already rely on. We’re proud to be part of that ecosystem with our Onyx BDR DataKeeper appliance.

When the right tools are built to work together, everything gets easier. That’s where the Acronis + Carbon Systems partnership fits. We believe MSPs should spend less time stitching solutions together and more time running their business.

Worth a read: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-ecosystem-expands-with-new-integrations-to-help-msps-protect-manage-and-automate/

Acronis Ecosystem expands with new integrations to help MSPs protect, manage and automate Acronis has further expanded its Ecosystem with 10 new integrations across identity security, SIEM, asset management, reporting and data protection, giving MSPs greater flexibility to connect the technologies they trust directly into Acronis Cyber Platform.

In an industry where vendors sometimes sell direct and compete with their own partners, Carbon Systems takes a different approach: we are, and always will be, channel-only.

See how we’ve built around this: https://www.carbonsys.com/about-us

We’re heading to Empower by N-able 2026. Carbon Systems will be at Booth 902, April 13-15 at the Omni Fort Lauderdale Hotel. If you’re an MSP looking to simplify hardware, speed up deployments, or actually make margin on endpoints, come find us. We promise not to make it weird.