Most organisations need the services of a Project Manager at some time or another. At Vibak we can assist project managers with organising and controlling project activities through communicating risks, opportunities and current state of the project. Maintenance of budget and project delivery targets ensuring quality services are rendered to the project management team to efficiently manage stakeholder expectations as well as documentation management.
We can also provide bespoke services ranging from but not limited to marketing and new business sales, administration, and acquisition; procuring new clients and business; billing and invoicing.
At Vibak we can provide the expertise to enable organisations in the creation, management and optimisation of, or access to information and business processes. We can work with your internal IT teams to create root cause analysis reports and identify service improvement areas; highlight service risks, maintain and update shift rotas for support teams and manage and develop targets and deliverables. We can provide seamless data collection and analysis, asset management and inventory through to data migration by managing client expectations and fulfilling delivery commitments.
Facilitate streamlined cloud storage for both private and business use.
Vibak can assist in creating an IT strategy that offers sustainable value to any organisation which in turn helps create shareholder value and maximizes the return on any IT investments. We can aid with outlining business goals, liaising with Executives and Operations Teams, defining schedules and scope through to handling resource allocation. Solve client challenges, procure and work to budgets and deadlines.
Regular IT Maintenance is essential to any organisation to ensure the security of your software and systems and to ensure they remain stable and operate effectively. Vibak can assist with archiving old files, deleting duplicates, system updates and patches, anti-virus implementation and any other company-specific disk cleanup tasks you might require. We can also help with providing software support and training to company personell.
If your company has unwanted IT assets, they will eventually need to be securely disposed of in order to meet data security regulations. Frequently these assets will sit in storage for months and years before a decision on their future is made. In that time, their residual value is likely to fall dramatically. Data centre decommissioning is the practice of removing data centre hardware for relocation, resale, recycling, or disposal while rerouting data to new servers. A company’s data centre is the fuel that powers business operations. Due to the sensitivity of your company’s data, the decommissioning process requires thorough planning and careful execution.
Decommissioning Data Centres
Data Decommissioning involves:
What is Data Centre Decommission?
Data centre decommissioning is a structured process of de-installing servers and old data infrastructure to make room for newer data management systems. Data decommissioning has become a frequent exercise for companies as they adjust to cloud data management solutions. To decommission a data centre, you need to have a project plan, checklist, and prior communication to all departments notifying staff members about the decommissioning process.
The decommissioning checklist collects inventory on servers, desktops, laptops, printers, routers, and any other IT equipment.
A typical data decommissioning checklist contains the following items:
- The Scope of the decommissioning work
- A list of data centre assets and peripheral equipment
- A decommissioning plan with a time frame, responsibilities, specific people in charge, budgets, and roles.
- The tools required for the decommissioning work
- Action Plan For physically removing infrastructure, backing up, and erasing data
- A relocation plan for packing, clearing, and movement of assets
- Data sanitization
- Decommissioning
Each piece of equipment is decommissioned, tagged, wrapped, protected and placed into a specialist IT crate for transportation, this includes the cabling which is tied and referenced for recommissioning. Transportation is via our own specialist “air ride” IT fleet.
We follow a pre-agreed de-racking schedule during decommissioning ensuring an auditable record of the process.
The main benefit of this system is that it reduces downtime.
Secure IT Disposal
- All hard drives are data erased and/or shredded with appropriate certification uploaded into the asset report. All other media is shredded.
- Equipment that cannot be remarketed is stripped and segregated for recycling and reuse in recycled products.
- Laptop recycling
- Computer recycling
- Printer recycling
Data Sanitisation
- Data wiping and enhanced overwrite of hard disk drives (HDD) including SSD using certified data erasure software. Every data erasure performed produces a Certificate of Erasure, with full details of the item erased and therefore a complete audit trail for data controllers ensuring the highest possible erasure standards. To find out more about our data erasure service, take a look at our IT disposal page.
Data Destruction
We can destroy your hard drives and other media. Data destruction is carried out by qualified, vetted professionals, and uses strict protocols in order to guarantee the safe destruction of your data.
Reclamation
- We reuse everything we can.
- Components are sent to vetted recycling partners, who will reclaim their materials.
- We send circuit boards off for precious metal reclamation, including gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Hard drives are shredded and the aluminium is reclaimed. Cables are processed for their copper whilst heat shields are removed from mainboards for additional aluminium and copper.
- Low grade plastics such as keyboards and mice are sent for plastic recycling, and any lead acid batteries have their lead recycled and the acid safely disposed of. Data tapes are sent to an ‘energy from waste’ facility for energy recovery.
- Finally, the bodies of machines are harvested for steel.
Segregation
- All components are separated into their various waste streams. Each must be recycled in the correct manner in order to reclaim materials and protect the environment.
Disassembly
- Anything not suitable for resale will be sent for waste processing. Assets are disassembled so each component can be recycled.
IT Remarketing and Recycling
- Remarketing and recycling services for no-longer-needed assets
- Remarketing to recoup asset value, recycling to protect the environment
- IT asset remarketing covers the protection of data whilst also realising the true value of the assets we process.
- We can refurbish these assets rather than see them end up in landfill, reducing carbon emissions and realising the value of the assets.
- We recycle all the parts of the asset so they can be reused in another IT asset in the future.
