IT asset lifecycle management (ALM)

One of the most valuable assets and resources that your company owns is its data. It’s also important to your team because competitors and cybercriminals are also itching to get their digital hands on your data, which is why you need to protect your information from the time it is created until it's securely destroyed.

To protect your data, it’s imperative that the hardware assets on which your data resides are governed by effective asset lifecycle management (ALM). Secure destruction is key to keeping this resource safe, but it's also important to do so during its entire lifecycle.

Asset lifecycle management is a strategic approach to IT enterprise asset management that protects your data, ensures optimised utilisation, maximises your return on investment, and minimises your environmental impact.

Iron Mountain can partner with you to develop a program that cares for your IT assets from deployment and active usage to retirement and disposition, supported by our industry-leading data security and sustainability measures.

Iron Mountain’s ALM services include:

• Configuration, imaging, asset tagging, rollout, and discovery
• Inventory management and deployment
• Decommissioning and data erasure
• Remarketing, reclaiming, and recycling to recover value

With most IT teams fully consumed by their “day jobs”—setting up new employees’ computers, managing network security, deploying and supporting applications, and maintaining infrastructure—there’s almost no time left to focus on best practices for IT asset disposition. Inadequate attention dedicated to the proper disposition of IT assets leads to increased risks, including loss of control over confidential data, lack of compliance, and impacted financial performance.

How our services elevate your ALM

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• Data erasure: Reduce disruption, minimise environmental impacts, and increase recovery value by comprehensively sanitising every data-bearing device. Decommission even the largest data centres 7 – 10 times faster and virtually eliminate the risk of data loss.
• IT asset remarketing: Recover maximum value and drive ROI with Iron Mountain’s industry-leading asset remarketing capabilities.
• Environmentally responsible dispositioning: Ensure that all decommissioning activities adhere to industry best practices and regulatory compliance for environmental impact and Occupational Health and Safety.
• Secure chain of custody: Identify and track every serialised asset, with multiple checkpoints and secure logistics, from client sites to world-class processing centres.

Whether it’s managing tech for remote workers, scaling facilities due to M&A activity, consolidations, or migration to the cloud, we’re here to help. Our portfolio of solutions enables your team to work with a single trusted partner. We provide:

• Certified, audit-ready data sanitization
• End-to-end secure chain of custody
• Maximum value recovery from retired assets
• Compliant and environmentally responsible IT asset disposition

Why Iron Mountain ?

We have the experience and expertise to streamline your organisation while keeping your enterprise and customer data safe and secure. Together, we elevate the power of your work.

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