Proactive Asset Retirement
Organisations are constantly demanding more from their IT investment and increasingly trying to balance improved efficiency with cost reduction. Many are battling with overcrowded data centres and the associated power and cooling problems. Added to this is the pressure to create a green IT strategy that reduces C02 emissions, whilst ensuring full compliance with the WEEE and RoHS directives, and the Data Protection Act.
Faced with these challenges, businesses are increasingly starting to take a lifecycle approach to managing their IT assets by evaluating procurement, ownership and retirement. However, it can be difficult to know where to begin. The key to effective technology lifecycle management is to first discover what devices are on the company’s network, how old they are, how they are being used and how they are performing. While this may seem a rudimentary place to begin, many businesses are unaware of the impact that mergers and acquisitions and disparate branch offices spread across the country, or even the world, can have on their IT environment. Creating an asset register by consolidating this information in one place can give businesses the top-level view they need in order to begin the lifecycle management process.
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