Pro Asset ManagementZycko is committed to reducing the levels of IT hardware incorrectly disposed of in

the UK each year and to reducing their resulting impact on the environment.

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Enable your customers to comply with the WEEE directive

Zycko, your value-add distributor, has created a multilayered Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

compliancy service combining data eradication and end-of-life IT hardware disposal services.

Zycko Pro Asset Management is an innovative service from Zycko, which corresponds with the implementation of

the WEEE directive into UK law in January 2007.

Zycko Pro Asset Management enables Zycko's VARs to both dispose of businesses' IT hardware and offer additional

services to destroy any data held on redundant storage devices, therefore eradicating the possibility that a

businesses' data can be compromised once a storage device is thrown away.

By supplying a data destruction service, in addition to WEEE hardware disposal, you can provide your customers

with complete piece of mind that any data unwittingly left on a redundant hard drive is removed.

You can offer your customers a number of options to ensure complete data destruction, such as a degausing

technique that uses powerful magnets to eliminate all magnetic properties from a hard drive.

Zycko is committed to reducing the levels of IT hardware incorrectly disposed of in the UK each year and to reducing

their resulting impact on the environment.

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Help Your Customers Reduce Their IT Complexity

Over the years, as demands have changed, most organisations’ computing platforms havegrown into highly complex environments that are difficult to manage. Without effectivemanagement of customers IT assets, IT can become more of a cost than an ‘enabler’… andyour customers business could be in breach of compliance regulations.

Zycko offers one of the most comprehensive IT Asset Management Services Programmes – with the focus on

helping customers to understand and manage their entire IT estate, while Zycko takes care of thorny or time

consuming issues, including asset discovery, audits, secure data destruction and redeployment or recycling of

decommissioned systems. Zycko offers:

• total asset discovery

• audit of all working and decommissioned assets

• audit of all software licences

• asset tagging

• IT architecture review & recommendations

• secure transport

• deregistration of removed assets

• secure removal of data

• tape and disc destruction

• reconfiguration of decommissioned systems

• low-cost storage of old systems – ready for re-use

• installation & re-commissioning of reconfigured systems

• trade-ins – better deals on upgrades

• installation and commissioning of brand new IT platforms

• sale of old systems – to generate revenues

• recycling – compliance with the WEEE Directive

End-to-end service… and lower IT costs

Unlike many other suppliers, Zycko has all of the expertise, logistics, specialist equipment and secure warehousing

facilities to deliver any combination of Asset Management Services that you require. Furthermore, as we hold

accreditations from many leading hardware and software vendors, we can even provide a total, end-to-end

service – from the supply of any new IT systems your business needs, right through to recycling them at the end of

their working life… so you benefit from one point of contact that can cover all of your IT asset management needs.

Whereas most suppliers simply charge for disposing of old systems, our trade-in and resale specialists can help to

release value from your redundant systems – often turning a cost into a revenue stream for your business.

With our own, low-cost, secure warehousing facilities, we could also save you up to 80% of the cost of storing

decommissioned systems – ready for future projects.

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Asset Discovery and Compliance Service

Recent estimates suggest that many organisations can only identify up to 80% of their ITassets – leading to inefficiency, unnecessary costs, serious compliance issues… and,potentially, large fines.

Zycko can run specialist ‘asset discovery’, ‘usage level analysis’ and ‘software patch analysis’ software suites that

identify every piece of hardware and every software package that’s running on a customers network.

We can also audit all of their assets – generating a detailed Asset Register that identifies all currently used and

decommissioned assets.

Then, you can deliver to your customers a detailed report that identifies opportunities to drive more value from

their IT estate by redeploying underutilised systems, consolidating servers and applications, freeing up storage

capacity, reducing software licensing costs and identifying ‘end of lease’ items so that they can be returned before

penalty payments are incurred. You can offer your customers the following benefits:

• Understand exactly what’s on your network and how it’s being utilised

• Help to ensure your regulatory compliance

• All assets tagged and detailed in an up-to-date Asset Register

• Full audit of all software installed on each system

• Monitor your software usage patterns – consolidate or reallocate software licences

• Identify opportunities to redeploy, sell or trade-in your redundant IT assets

A significant percentage of old discs, that have been ‘cleansed’ of data and placed on thesecond-hand market, still contain recoverable data. Can your business – and its reputation –run the risk of precious data falling into the wrong hands… with the possibility of severepenalties for directors?

Zycko can collect redundant IT systems – locking storage media in strong boxes, for which our drivers do not

hold keys – and deliver them to our secure, CCTV monitored warehouse. With our own data wiping and full

degaussing facilities, we can remove data and prepare your customers systems for redeployment / resale or we

can destroy magnetic media and incinerate tapes and optical discs.

If you prefer, we can even bring a mobile media destruction facility to the customers site.

• Enable compliance with the Data Protection Act

• Help to ensure compliance with software licensing conditions

• Data wiped to US Department of Defense 5220.22–M standards

• High Energy Degaussing facility meets the SEAP (Security Assessment Panel) for the

• secure erasure and destruction of data stored on magnetic media – up to ‘Top Secret’ status

• Full audit trail certificates issued

• All Zycko Pro Asset Management logistics staff have been screened to the International Professional

• Security Association (IPSA) British Standard 7858:2004 by the IPSA Scheme Administrator,

• SRM. This screening is accredited by IPSA

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Trade-In & Trade-Up Service

With vendor trade-in programmes offering up to five times more than the market value forredundant systems, the financial benefits of knowing your way around the latest IT vendortrade-in campaigns could help to stretch your IT budget much further.

Although we’re totally independent of any one supplier, Zycko has close relationships with many leading enterprise

vendors – so we can keep a very close eye on the latest trade-in deals. Where necessary, we can reconfigure your

systems to help maximise the trade-in allowances you receive.

• Manage the trade-in of existing assets – cut your upgrade costs

• Achieve better trade-in values

• Guidance on different vendors’ trade-in campaigns

• Reconfigure old systems to suit latest trade-in campaigns

• and boost trade-in values

• Resell systems that are no longer suitable for trade-in

Storing decommissioned systems on-site could be costing you 80% more than is necessary.Low-cost, offsite warehousing could be the key… but only with the right levels of security.

Zycko has extensive, secure warehousing facilities – so if you’re looking to store decommissioned

systems, ready for use on future projects, we can help you to reduce storage costs and free up valuable space

and Zycko’s Secure Data Removal Service means you don’t need to compromise on data security.

When any of your customers systems reach the end of their working life, Zycko's specialist recycling services enable

you to ensure compliance with the latest disposal and recycling regulations for your customers.

• Storage that costs up to 80% less than space within city offices or data centres

• Store your ‘data cleansed’ systems, ready for future IT projects

• Reconfigure systems prior to redeployment

• Stockpile ‘data cleansed’ systems for use in trade-in programmes

• Recycling – comply with the latest regulations, including the WEEE Directive

• Configuration, testing and storage facilities – minimise disruption and reduce timescales for new IT

• projects

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Total Lifecycle IT Management Capability

One contract with one company… total Lifecycle IT Asset Management – and total peace ofmind.

Whatever, your customers requirement, through Zycko you can tailor a service to meet their specific needs. You’re

free to use just one service component in order to complement your own resources. Or to offer a Total Lifecycle

Service that covers every aspect of IT Asset Management – from the supply of new systems, through to their

mid-life redeployment & data destruction and, finally, system trade-in or recycling.

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ISO 9001:2000 is an internationally recognised standard.It identifies the elements of organisation required by a company, to achieve & demonstrate,the necessary skills required to quality manage their activities, products or services.ISO registration is a measure of reliability, consistency & commitment to quality supply by acompany. Registration with The British Standards Institute is a recognised sign of qualityaround the world.

BS7799 is the Information Security Management Standard which is designed to protect valuable customer and

company information.

The standard has been adopted by ALL British Government Departments in order for them operate online line by

2005. They strongly encourage all prospective vendors to adopt the same exacting standard which forms the

backbone to their gateway program.

The standard is written in two parts:

1) ISO/IEC 17799 or BS7799 Part One, is a code of practice and stipulates which controls to secure

important information a company has adopted. A desktop review is then conducted by one of a number

of quality organisations to confirm that the ISMS (Information Security management System) covers all of

the requirements of the standard.

2) BS 7799-2:2002 is the second part of the standard and can only be conducted by BSI (The British

Standards Institute). It is a rigorous confirmation, in practice, that the standard is being adhered to.

There are fewer than 100 companies in the UK that have achieved BS7799 Part 2 and Zycko became one of those

in October 2004.

This confirms that Zycko has the necessary controls in place to ensure that important and sensitive information is

protected.

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Zycko is ISO9001 and BS7799 certified

To find out how you can offer these services to your customers,call your account manager today or call

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