Brazil's Data Center Tax Window: What Redata and Ex-Tarifários Mean for IT Imports Before Dec 31

Posted by Tropical IT on Nov 3rd 2026

For teams planning IT equipment imports into Brazil, the last weeks of 2026 combine two moving pieces: a new data center regime that is law but not yet operational, and updated ex-tarifário lis … read more

Why IT hardware lead times won't recover before 2028

Posted by Tropical IT on Aug 10th 2026

For the past few years, procurement teams have treated extended IT hardware lead times as a temporary disruption, something that would eventually work itself out once supply caught up with demand. Tha … read more

IT Procurement in Latin America under tariff pressure: What enterprises need to know in 2026

Posted by Tropical IT on Jul 6th 2026

Something shifted in 2025 that most enterprise procurement teams are still catching up to. The US tariff regime that took effect last year didn't just raise costs, it restructured the logic of how IT … read more

What InfoComm 2026 revealed about the next IT sourcing challenge

Jun 30th 2026

InfoComm 2026 closed last week in Las Vegas with a headline that wasn't about any single product. It was about a shift in how enterprise technology gets built: AV and IT are no longer separate stacks. … read more

Why IT vendor fragmentation is silently killing your operations in LATAM

Posted by Tropical IT on May 7th 2026

When companies begin scaling IT operations across Latin America, the instinct is almost universal: spread the risk. Source from multiple vendors across Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina. Build redund … read more