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Microsoft Intune vs RMM: Proven Guide to the Best Fit

Intune ships inside a Microsoft 365 subscription you may already own; a traditional RMM arrives with an IT provider, an agent on every machine and a per-device fee. They look interchangeable and are not. This guide sets out what each platform actually does, how enrolment and policy differ from agents and alerts, the seventy per cent of workstation tasks where the two genuinely overlap, the tasks only one of them can do at all, what each costs once design and monitoring labour is counted, a five-question framework for deciding, how to run both without conflicting policy, a twelve-week migration plan, the five mistakes that derail the project, and the questions that expose whether your provider has designed a boundary or simply picked a favourite.

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7 Ways to Reduce IT Deployment Costs in 2026

Gartner’s July 2026 forecast puts worldwide IT spending at $6.37 trillion, up 14.2 percent, while combined DRAM and SSD prices are expected to rise 130 percent by year end and push PC prices roughly 17 percent higher. Hardware got more expensive and budgets did not move, which leaves how many devices you deploy, how long they last, and what each deployment costs in labour, licence and rework. This guide sets out seven ways to reduce IT deployment costs in 2026 in the order they pay back: rationalising the hardware catalogue, buying against a forecast rather than a ticket, retiring imaging for zero-touch provisioning with direct despatch, automating application packaging and readiness testing, extending the refresh cycle on condition rather than calendar, making deployment the licence control point, and stopping the deployment of infrastructure nobody uses. It covers the unit that makes the comparison honest, where the seven ways conflict with each other, what the build-buy-rent decision actually turns on, the costs you should not cut, and the specific circumstances in which each mechanism fails.

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