"More than a decade ago, Elarasys Inc. found its niche amid a bad economy and the dot-com bust, reselling and leasing IT equipment obtained from the closed dot-com companies at a large savings to its customers.  Fast forward to today, and Elgin-based Elarasys Worldwide — as it is now known — again finds itself in a changing IT world, where a recession has forced businesses to tighten their IT budgets. But the company is finding a new niche for itself, branching out from its core business of leasing refurbished IT hardware and components into providing IT products and services for what CEO Steve McCarthy calls “all ranges of the life cycle." "

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