Item: Align
Rating: 5
Author: Ed Fasano

The Overview

Having a clear understanding of the equipment within your data centre, and the status of that equipment, is imperative before beginning an IT change event. Once you have an understanding of your environment, you gain valuable insights into the capabilities of your facility: uncover redundancies and opportunities to downsize, legacy equipment that may need to be updated or decommissioned, and more opportunities to streamline your operations.

The Benefits

Real-time transparency of the current state
Reveal inefficiencies, redundancies, and legacy equipment to retire
Reduce power consumption and your physical footprint
Full preparation for any and all IT change events

The Process

Bringing over three decades of data centre experience, industry-leading business rules and a purpose-built data solution, Align professionals deliver our audit and assessment program in a proven four-step approach.

Get Started

#1 - Inventory & Discover

Align performs an inventory and physical validation of your IT assets.

#2 - Confirm & Validate

Purpose-build data repository (powered by Asset Point) confirms the IT asset estate.

#3 - Evaluation & Analysis

Evaluation of results and deeper analysis of IT environment.

#4 - IT Asset Insights

Gain real-time data analytics and insights.

Sustainability Planning

How much space, power and cooling are available in my data centre?
What is the PUE / CUE reading of the data centre?
What is my data centre performance (CPU cycles per kW)
Is my data centre cooling plan sensible?

Virtualisation Planning

How many servers are underutilised?
How many of these are virtualisation candidates?

Database Planning

Are my ITAM CMDB and DCIM systems accurate?
Do I know what exists within my databases?

Decommission Planning

Which asset models are obsolescent?
What servers are not powered up or not attached to my network?
How many versions of an application are running?
What software is no longer supported?

Inventory & Audits