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Audit & Compliance

Getting Ready for an Audit?

Having correct information at your fingertips makes all the difference. To meet today’s compliance requirements, you must be able to promptly identify and verify the exact location of all devices that contain or transmit customer-, financial- or otherwise sensitive data.

Here's how AIM helps you be prepared for your next audit:

  • Instantly know the exact rack and rack-unit location of all your rack-mounted assets in any of your data center locations
  • Maintain control of all assets over time — avoid relying on out-dated point-in-time inventory data with AIM's real-time, automated alerts and updates
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    AIM provides you with the exact location and instant inventory reports of your servers by facility, room, rack, and rack-unit space

  • Extensive search and reporting features at your fingertips tell you the status, location, history, make, serial number and other details about your assets
  • Audit trails automatically capture asset movement and changes and allow you to reconstruct and examine any sequence of events
  • Security alerts are provided when equipment is replaced, moved or relocated.

AIM ensures that appropriate organizational controls are in place to account for your IT assets and their precise locations, while also providing the necessary processes for personnel to be cognizant of the security and privacy issues related to movement of physical IT assets and the sensitive data they host.

Are You Still Using Spreadsheets and Bar Codes to Keep Track of Your IT Assets?

Using manual processes to record inventory and maintain location information is not only a costly and error-prone methodology — it also creates problems due to the static nature of the data and the speed by which it becomes out of date. AIM offers you complete consolidation of all your spreadsheets, barcodes, labels and notes. By automating your data center infrastructure tracking and monitoring processes, and doing away with outmoded manual inventories, AIM provides you with real time, instant-access to inventory details, location and status of all your equipment. That means better use of resources, better planning, better utilization and higher data accuracy. Uploading your current spreadsheet data is a breeze. Eliminating errors and time consuming counts and re-counts frees up time to focus on the essential demands of managing your data center and planning for the future.

Validating your physical inventory instantly and in real time, without expending manpower to count and locate IT equipment, and maintain reliable inventories, provides the best way to manage your infrastructure, meet compliance demands, and control costs. Experts predict that each technician and system admin will have to manage up to ten times more servers in ten years due to efficiency demands and lack of experienced personnel. Are you ready?

Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, PCI and SAS 70

SOX/SAS70, HIPAA, SIO 27001, and the PCI Data Security Standard are driving forces in any IT organization that hosts or processes sensitive data.

With its unique qualities for easy set up, AIM offers data centers the ability to make major changes quickly and effectively and provides real-time means to monitor and track the precise rack and rack-unit position of assets across multiple locations, network rooms and IT facilities.

By continuously accounting for the whereabouts of devices hosting or processing sensitive information, AIM also addresses Federal compliance requirements by employing controls to meet FISMA security obligations, as defined by OMB and NIST regulations.

In addition, AIM helps data centers service organizations with SAS 70 audits, and verifies that satisfactory controls and safeguards are in place when hosting sensitive data.

  • Minimize human errors through AIM automation and monitoring
  • Strengthen internal controls through real-time access to critical information and security policies
  • Implement quick remediation plans after audits
  • Lower costs of audits per asset
  • Provide instant and precise reporting and audit information

“Do more with less” — Data center managers are all too familiar with this phrase. AIM allows you to focus on keeping your data center running smoothly at all times while we provide you with the internal controls to maintain it at an “auditable” state at all times and with the desired level of granularity.