Data Center Inventory & Audit

Service benefits:

  • Global availability
  • Cross-functional, multi-platform system experts
  • Single or simultaneous multi-site projects
  • Helps to secure valuable business data
  • Expertise that overcomes limiting factors of automated inventory applications
  • Customizable suite of add-on IT services that allow for additional cost savings, proactive planning and enhanced decision making

Service value:

  • Reduces cost and generates a greater ROI
  • Creates added efficiencies in IT operation workflows
  • Reduces IT management and staff burden
  • Reduces employee overhead and/or need for temporary staffing and training
  • Free access to singlePoint® for ongoing inventory management

Data Center Inventory and Audit service highlights:

  • Global availability
  • Cross-functional, multi-platform experienced asset and systems experts
  • Single or simultaneous multi-site projects
    • Able to work in combination with automated inventory collection
    • Gap analysis between automated discovery and physical audit
  • Customizable data point collection
  • Customizable projects with simultaneous add-on services
  • Free access to singlePoint for ongoing management of IT asset data

Meticulous expertise that no automated software can match.

Over the course of many years and hundreds of inventory and audit projects, we have found that automated inventory collection software cannot find one hundred percent of a business' IT hardware inventory. Key factors for this include:

  • Systems that are powered off
  • Assets that are outside the DMZ
  • Technology that is too old for the application
  • Devices that are not connected to the network.

These factors severely limit the automated inventory applications ability to provide complete inventories.

To ensure a complete and accurate IT asset inventory is provided to its clients, we use human expertise and experience. With a large global footprint and specialized teams standing by 24/7, we can ensure that a complete wall-to-wall IT asset inventory is accomplished in all required locations, from basement closets to end-user locations, from data centers to co-locations, there is nowhere an IT asset can hide that we won't find. The data we collect is customizable, but generally includes:

  • Device manufacturer
  • Asset name
  • Asset make and model
  • Device serial number
  • System platform category
  • Asset tag number
  • Location which includes floor, room, rack, row, u-space, etc.
  • Connected peripherals
  • Power supplies
  • NIC cards
  • Short description

Should there be a short project timeline, we are able to deploy inventory and audits teams in parallel across entire enterprises and also work in conjunction with automated inventory collection applications and turn what could be an unpleasantly cumbersome project into quick results.

Accurate, actionable data allowing for maximum utilization and ROI.

To maximize IT asset utilization and ROI, a business must first know what assets they have and in what state they are in. For example, if an asset is pulled from production in one area or department of a business, it does not necessarily mean that asset has no production value serving another purpose elsewhere in the business. Repurposing IT assets is a great way to maximize utilization.

Furthermore, if an asset is found to be truly unable to provide the capabilities required for production, there may still be a residual market value. Reselling these assets is a great way to generate additional, unaccounted ROI. However, if these assets are stored too long, all residual value may just wither away. In either case, having accurate, actionable data is an important first step towards proactive management of IT assets.

Enabling enhanced IT asset management.

Because highly skilled technical personnel perform our inventory and audit service, we are also able to provide other strategic data points or add-on services that enable proactive planning, enhanced decision making and additional cost savings. This includes the capability to simultaneously perform:

  • Internal IT hardware audits to include:
    • Organization
    • Host name
    • MAC address
    • Network address
    • CPUs
    • Memory & hard drive(s)
    • Fiber cards
  • Facility reviews
  • Location risk assessments
  • Asset tagging
  • Asset repurposing
  • Asset relocation
  • Secure data erasure
  • Digital media shredding
  • IT hardware resale
  • IT disposal (e-Stewards certified).

And because we are e-Stewards certified, all IT asset disposition services are carried out following strict guidelines to ensure employee safety and environmentally responsible asset recycling.

Helping to keep your IT asset management efforts on track.

Knowing the complexity inherent to IT asset tracking and the high cost and sometimes difficult implementation of IT asset management applications, we have developed the cloud-based SaaS application singlePoint to help businesses maintain their critical IT asset data which is provided to all clients free of charge. Should a business already have an IT asset management application, collected data is delivered in a versatile Microsoft Excel format.