IT leaders continually face difficult challenges as IT and data center environments evolve and become increasingly complex. In most cases, they are able to rely on their experience and expertise to overcome these challenges. Occasionally however, IT leaders must confront a challenge that requires knowledge and experience outside the scope of day to day operations. These challenges include: Multi-site data consolidations; Data integration; Colocation transitions; Disaster recovery implementation; Cloud computing initiatives. IT leaders that face these complex challenges often find themselves with far more questions than answers. Fortunately, addressing these challenges is made easy with our Data Center Strategy and Selection Consultation service. Working closely with our clients, we will provide answers to your toughest questions and develop a comprehensive business case and financial models allowing you to easily determine the best course of action for your data center environment.

One of the most difficult and stressful challenges IT leaders can face is a data center relocation, especially if the project involves consolidation of multiple data centers. Complicating this challenge even further can be the need to consolidate data centers that are located across international borders. While many IT leaders are able to properly manage such a task and complete their data center move with limited consequence, engaging a specialized IT asset relocation company like ABM to fill specific resource gaps, or to manage the entire project, can have many benefits. These benefits include substantial cost reductions, significantly reduced risk to business operations and a considerably lower level of stress for your IT organization. From simple IT asset relocations to global data center consolidation and migration projects, these data center services can help your business avoid the common pitfalls that can cause major business disruptions, while creating a project environment that benefits both your business and your employees.

Ensuring IT staff resources are properly allocated and always performing tasks suitable to their pay grade can be a tedious challenge, especially when necessity trumps all. Just a phone call away, our Smart Hands service is an ideal solution to prevent the wasteful use of time, money and resources. Our ABM Smart Hands service provides business with highly trained and experienced Engineers when and where they are needed to perform almost any task that may be required, Smart Hands service is designed to: Alleviate the high cost of having expensive IT staff members perform routine tasks; Provide expert resources to global enterprises that may not have trained staff available at all locations; Provide expert resources to businesses that make use of colocations, where having a full-time employee would be uneconomical. By having seasoned ABM Engineers performing these tasks, businesses can expect consistent process standards and execution, while reducing the risk of inadvertent outages.

Numerous hurdles can be encountered while planning and executing an IT hardware installation or deployment project, many of which will create a great deal of risk to business operations should there be any oversights or unexpected issues. These hurdles can range from a lack of adequate staging facilities, to deficient local expertise, to critical hardware failures after installation. Providing the expertise, tools and resources to plan and execute IT hardware installations, deployments, take-outs, upgrades and configurations that are virtually seamless to client operations is the challenge that our IT Deployment and Installation service is designed to meet.

From data center storage arrays to smartphones or flash drives, sensitive business data can easily propagate throughout an enterprise, creating a huge challenge for those responsible for data security. Moreover, this challenge is often intensified by strict regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, Graham Leach Bliley and also recycling restrictions. Whether the need is for a onetime digital media shredding project or an ongoing, process integrated solution, the ABM Data Erasure and Media Destruction service can help businesses overcome these challenges while also creating an environment for added workflow efficiencies and cost savings. 

Assisting your business with expert advice and truly unbiased guidance is at the core of every solution we provide, with our Strategic Sourcing service epitomizing this commitment. Our Strategic Sourcing will help you negotiate cost savings, as well as better terms for new software acquisitions and renewals, or expansion of existing software agreements. Extensive negotiating experience with top software publishers, as well as many boutique publishers, in both Perpetual License and SaaS models enables our Strategic Sourcing professionals to create substantial value for our clients. Additionally, we provide IT procurement spend analytics consultation to help businesses categorize spending. 

One of the most cumbersome challenges IT leaders face in IT asset management is obtaining and maintaining an accurate IT inventory. Without accurate information as to what IT assets a business has, their location and current state, it is very difficult to guarantee data security, account for asset depreciation or ensure maximum asset utilization and ROI. However, with Data Center Inventory and Audit services from ABM, IT leaders can avoid the burden and high labor cost of performing full IT asset inventories in-house. Whether in a central location, or spread throughout a global enterprise, our service helps businesses obtain the valuable information they require for a complete and accurate IT asset inventory. 

Helping to keep valuable data secure, offering environmentally responsible choices, simplifying operational workflows and providing a greater ROI is precisely what our IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) suite of services is designed to do. With ITAD from ABM, IT leaders have the ability to choose exactly what services they need to fill the gaps in their ITAD strategy, or simply have us handle the process from beginning to end. As an e-Stewards certified business, not only does our ITAD offering encompass all of the services a business needs to properly manage an IT asset's end-of-life, but we also perform these services in an environmentally responsible way by adhering to strict e-Stewards process standards, safeguarding employees and the environment.

Realizing the maximum potential of your storage infrastructure can be a complex and time consuming endeavor. However, with Storage Reassurance services from ABM, storage optimization, storage connectivity optimization and storage risk assessments are a simple task that can increase data availability, reduce costs and enable proactive management of your critical data infrastructure. Focusing on storage hardware utilization, storage connectivity and risk, the ABM Storage Reassurance service provides a clear path for remediation of issues, enabling you to optimize this critical component of your business which will boost productivity and generate a greater ROI. ABM also provides most any remediation service your business requires.