- Minimize maintenance costs from redundant environments
- Stage decommissioning of legacy hardware
- Manage leased hardware and prepare lease returns
- Establish fair market valuation of IT assets, including servers, racks and network equipment
Make Your Move
Don’t Let Legacy Tech Weigh Down Your Migration
What if your next cloud migration didn’t just cost money but generated it?
Most organizations treat data center exits as an unavoidable expense. The smartest treat them as a strategic opportunity to recover value, free trapped capital, and increase operational flexibility.
SLS helps you rethink migration through the lens of cloud divestiture, the shift from owned, on‑premise infrastructure to scalable cloud environments. We conduct a technical debt and asset value analysis of your current environment to uncover where capital is tied up in aging hardware and overlapping platforms. From there, we help you budget for migration while creating a staged divestiture plan that avoids “double‑bubble” costs and converts CapEx-heavy infrastructure into OpEx that scales with your business.
Develop a Migration and Divestiture Plan
A successful move from on‑premise data centers to the cloud isn’t just about relocating workloads. It’s about reallocating capital, improving cash flow, and removing operational constraints.
Our expert team designs and executes an end‑to‑end migration and divestiture strategy that includes:
- Strategic planning, budgeting, and alignment to business and financial objectives
- Assessment of current infrastructure, technical debt, and recoverable asset value
- Step‑by‑step migration of workloads, applications, data, and services
- Defined timelines, dependencies, and resource requirements
- Contingency and risk‑mitigation planning
- Hardware lifecycle decisions that prioritize reuse, resale, and responsible disposition
We ensure uptime while reducing redundant environments, accelerating time to value, and freeing your teams to innovate without being held back by legacy infrastructure.
Hardware Lifecycle Services
Our suite of technical services are tailored to manage your legacy hardware lifecycle seamlessly as you migrate to the cloud.
Trust SLS to:
- Resell, redeploy and recycle decommissioned IT assets
- Perform hardware installation and deinstallation
- Provide comprehensive asset reporting
- Guide strategic decisions on redeployment, resell and recycling of IT assets from current environment
Hardware Installation & Deinstallation
Whether deploying new hardware or decommissioning existing infrastructure, our team ensures seamless installation and deinstallation processes. From rack mounting to cable management, we handle every aspect of hardware setup and removal efficiently and professionally.
EZ Flex Maintenance of Legacy Hardware
Our certified technicians provide expert maintenance for on-premise hardware, handling routine maintenance tasks, updates, troubleshooting, and break/fix services, allowing your team to focus on core business operations.
Services include troubleshooting hardware problems, efficiently replacing faulty components such as SSDs, HDDs, DIMMs, RAIDs, SD/CF Cards, and more.
SLAs Ensure Quick Action
SLS offers extended support and maintenance for legacy servers, storage, and networking equipment, bolstered by SLAs. Our primary objective is to promptly rectify issues and restore optimal functionality to your data center, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.
Service levels are aligned to the criticality of the equipment and applications. This extended support covers all manufacturers and provides an important service bridge as you complete your cloud migration.
Staged Decommissioning
When it’s time to retire your on-premise servers, our decommissioning services ensure a secure and efficient process. Decommissioning staging is coordinated based on contract renewal dates and migration timelines. We handle everything from asset identification, inventory management to data wiping and environmentally responsible disposal. Trust us to decommission your hardware safely and compliantly.
Lease Returns
Lease returns can cause significant administrative headaches in locating, restoring to acceptable condition and removing digital data from the equipment prior to return.
Our services include managing equipment return deadlines, inventory reconciliation, removal of company applied asset tags, data erasure and packing and shipping the leased equipment back to the leasing company to avoid unnecessary chargebacks and return fees.
ITAD Services
Resell, Redeploy or Recycle
SLS operates IT asset disposition (ITAD) Circular Centers globally to support businesses and data centers seeking to repurpose legacy IT assets in a secure and compliant manner. SLS directly supports the requirements of large national and global companies, offering full data destruction, IT asset remarketing, redeployment and recycling services. We ensure data security, and enable maximum IT value recovery, while optimizing material reuse and supporting the circular economy.
Data Destruction
Protect your sensitive data with our secure data destruction services. Utilizing industry-leading techniques and certified processes, we ensure complete and irreversible data destruction, safeguarding your organization’s confidential information throughout the hardware lifecycle.
Asset Reporting
Gain insights into your IT asset disposition (ITAD) process with comprehensive reports. Our detailed documentation provides transparency and accountability, tracking the entire hardware lifecycle from procurement to disposal, and ensuring compliance with regulations and corporate policies.
Why Choose Sims?
Trusted Team, Proven Global Lifecycle Solutions.
- Global Reach: Our services are available globally, ensuring that we can support your migration no matter where your business operates.
- Experience: With years of experience in technical migration services, we have the expertise to handle even the most complex projects.
- Compliance: We adhere to strict compliance standards to ensure that your migration is conducted in accordance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Customized Solutions: We understand that every project is unique. That’s why we offer customized solutions tailored to your specific requirements and objectives.
- Certified Services: SLS Circular Centers are certified to ISO 14001, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001, ISO 45001, R2v3 and WEEE standards. Global Circular Centers are certified to additional standards, depending on the regulatory framework in each country.
- Circular Solutions: Our purpose, to create a world without waste to preserve our planet, is what drives us to constantly innovate and offer new solutions in the circular economy to reduce our carbon impact and to help our clients meet their sustainability goals.
- Innovation and Automation: We leverage robotics, optical recognition scanning and machine learning to improve productivity and quality control when repurposing used data center equipment at our Circular Centers.
