IT asset lifecycle management (ALM)

Enterprise IT asset management services

Protect your data. Protect the environment. Protect your bottom line.

Your company’s data is valuable — to you, to competitors, and to cybercriminals. From the time it is created until it is securely destroyed, data is one of your most powerful resources.

To protect your data, it’s imperative to protect the hardware assets your data resides on through effective asset lifecycle management (ALM).

What is IT Asset Lifecycle Management?

IT asset lifecycle management is a strategic approach involving comprehensive enterprise IT asset management practices that protects your data, optimises utilisation, maximises your return on investment, and minimises your environmental impact.

Iron Mountain Hong Kong can partner with you to develop a robust IT asset management program that covers everthing from asset deployment and active usage, to retirement and IT asset disposition (ITAD), supported by our industry-leading data security and sustainability measures.

Iron Mountain’s IT asset lifecycle management ALM services include:

• Asset procurement: We will work with you to assess your needs and acquire the most suitable assets to meet your business needs.
• Asset deployment: Our experts handle the setup, installation, and configuration of your IT assets to ensure you get the maximum value from each one.
• IT asset tracking and inventory management: Assets will be monitored from the moment they arrive through configuration, imaging, asset tagging, rollout, and discovery, to ensure accurate inventory and configuration records are maintained.
• Asset redeployment: We help identify underutilised IT assets and come up with a plan to reallocate, redeploy or decommission to maximise value and return on investment.
• Hardware decommissioning: We ensure secure data erasure, including degaussing, destruction and data sanitisation.
• Data destruction and sanitisation: Using cutting-edge technology and industry best practices, we thoroughly destroy all data in your hardware.
• IT asset remarketing: Reclaiming value through asset redeployment, and recycling to ensure effective IT asset disposition (ITAD) recover value
• Electronic waste disposal: We ensure your company complies with the latest security and sustainability regulations when disposing of IT assets. Materials that cannot be repurposed or resold will be recycled in a secure and environmentally-friendly manner, contributing to the team’s sustainability efforts.

From deployment to disposition, you can track your IT assets throughout their entire lifecycle. At the end of the destruction process, we will provide certificates to confirm that your assets and data have been thoroughly destroyed.

Common challenges businesses face with IT asset lifecycle management (ALM)

Implementing an effective IT asset lifecycle management program can be challenging for organisations due to resource constraints and varying business priorities. Common challenges include:

• Limited resources: Organisations might lack the necessary resources to effectively deploy and maintain an ALM program, as IT asset management may not be a primary focus of key functions.
• Visibility issues: Without standardised tracking and enterprise IT asset management processes, companies may struggle with limited visibility into their IT assets, resulting in inefficiencies, compliance risks, and potential downtimes.
• Inadequate processes: Ineffective processes for IT asset management can lead to errors, waste, and compliance issues.