- 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
Are you planning to migrate your data center operations? Paying for redundant legacy infrastructure in addition to a new platform can quickly become cost prohibitive. SLS can conduct a technical debt analysis of your current environment, helping you budget for the migration while also creating a plan for the staged divestiture of your existing infrastructure. This ensures you minimize redundant technology stacks and optimize your investment during the transition.
Integrating Your Migration Plan into Your Overall Transition Strategy
A migration plan to move from an on-premise data center to a cloud solution is a critical component of a larger transition plan aimed at modernizing IT infrastructure and optimizing business operations.
Our expert team specializes in developing and implementing a seamless migration plan that includes:
- Strategic planning, budgeting and definition of business objectives
- Assessing your current infrastructure
- Develop step-by-step process of moving workloads, applications, data and services
- Define migration timeline, dependencies and resource requirements
- Prepare contingency plans
- Executing hardware lifecycle decisions
We ensure uptime while minimizing “double-bubble” or redundant costs associated with running concurrent environments.
Migration tasks are prioritized based on workload criticality, complexity, and dependencies to minimize disruptions and maximize cost-effectiveness.
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
- Guide strategic decisions on redeployment, resell and recycling of IT assets from current environment
- Perform hardware installation and deinstallation
- Provide comprehensive asset reporting
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.
Third-Party 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 or Redeploy Legacy Hardware
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.
Establish Fair Market Valuation of IT Assets
We assess the market value and resell your decommissioned equipment, helping you recoup costs and offset migration expenses.
Working directly in key regions, leveraging a pricing engine, enables us to command higher prices for the assets we sell.
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.
Turnkey Data Center Shutdown Services
Working together with our sister company, Sims Metal, we provide decommissioning of the entire data center infrastructure (IT equipment, electrical and mechanical systems).
After a comprehensive assessment of the infrastructure, IT equipment, building structure, cabling, electrical systems and HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), we decommission all equipment. This holistic approach to shut down services allows us to deliver an efficient and coordinated solution and avoid cost overruns.
After all equipment is removed, we restore the data center space to its original building condition. The vacated premise is cleaned and prepared to be repurposed for future tenants.
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 Economy 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. SLS is a division of Sims Limited. All Sims Limited divisions play an integral role in the circular, low-carbon economy by making resources available for future use, reducing resource use, environmental loss and carbon emissions associated with new production. As leaders in the circular economy, we bring the innovation and expertise that we have honed over the past 106 years to the shared global challenge of climate action.
- Innovation and Automation: We leverage robotics, independent mobile robots (IMRs), optical recognition scanning and machine learning to improve productivity and quality control when repurposing used data center equipment at our Circular Centers.
