Professional

Services

Jan 2022
 Empower IT with our flexible,
dependable IT services

Discovery Remote Hands Staff Augmentation

Data Center Services Wireless

Deployments
(IMAC) Transformation

IT Asset Relocation IT Asset Disposition Data Migration

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DISCOVERY CAPABILITIES

Acquisitions, technology refreshes and

other initiatives make having an up-to-
date and accurate view of your IT
infrastructure crucial.

Park Place Technologies offers both manual

and automated IT asset discovery solutions –
each designed to provide the right level of
detail about your IT environment to enable
fact-based decision-making to drive IT
strategy and transformation.

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MANUAL DISCOVERY PROCESS
Our manual discovery service consists of
• Physical site surveys
• Gathering existing asset and application information
• Conducting interviews with application owners to capture
knowledge not in an existing CMDB

What We’ll Discover: Key Benefits

• Rack elevations ü We know what to collect and the best
• Available rack space way to consolidate in a concise format
• Quality of cabling ü Large global footprint of Field Engineers
• Physical security available locally increase speed and
• Access to power reduces costs
• Inventory
• And more

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PARKVIEW DISCOVERY™
ParkView Discovery™ is a service that delivers
accurate and timely asset discovery on physical,
virtual, and cloud assets across your infrastructure
environment.

Key Benefits
Automate and simplify your asset discovery process
allowing you to:
ü Eliminate the need for manually collecting and
documenting IT inventory
ü Achieve real time visibility for acquired assets and
assets in remote locations
ü Accelerate audit preparation and readiness
ü Easily obtain serial number and product life cycle
information

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DATA CENTER SERVICES (IMAC)

Install, Move, Add, and Change (IMAC):

Globally available Field Engineering resources to preform simple tasks
like a memory install or moving a network switch from one rack to
another, to complex projects such as installing and configuring new
hyper-converged infrastructure and enterprise storage.

• Network hardware (switches, routers, firewalls and AP’s)

• Compute infrastructure from commodity 1U & 2U servers to blade
and chassis systems.
• Storage systems from all major OEM brands

Key Benefits:
ü Fill expertise and resource gaps
ü Global technical resource availability
ü Remote configuration assistance

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IT ASSET RELOCATION
Physical relocation of IT assets locally, nationally, and globally including:

• Onsite technical resources to de-install, re-install, and power physical data center
devices
• Professional electronics packers/shippers to ensure no physical damage to your
equipment while maintaining data asset and security
• Overall project management by a qualified Relocation PM/Specialist Optional
services includes Planning, Site Survey, Asset Tagging, Cable Labeling, Pre-
Staging Devices and Decommission
• From minor asset relocations to comprehensive data center relocations
encompassing thousands of assets

Key Benefits:
ü Risk reduction
ü Outsourced turn-key service, or in partnership with your staff
ü Frees up IT resources
ü Avoid costly landmines by leveraging our experience
ü Single vendor solution

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REMOTE HANDS
Services provide dispatched resources to support onsite tasks with
your data center or facility to extend the reach of your team.

Routine tasks include (but not limited to):

• Site audits
• Unpacking systems following shipment/delivery
• Racking servers, storage arrays, and networking gear
• Server installations and decommissioning
• Cabling assets (power, network, ILO, etc.)
• Performing firmware and or patch installation (Park Place Technologies
cannot provide the patch itself, but can perform the installation)

Key Benefits:
ü Single vendor global solution
ü Workforce flexibility
ü Simple pricing model
ü Balance resource workloads for ad-hoc, scheduled and emergency
projects or support
ü Service Delivery Desk to facilitate dispatch requests

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WIRELESS TRANSFORMATION
Our Wireless Transformation service leads organizations through our Assessment &
Design, Build & Ship and Deployment process, on a global scale, giving you a single
vendor solution.

Key Benefits:
ü Single vendor global solution
ü Platform-neutral approach means we aren’t tied to a specific manufacturer solution
ü Aligned to your goals and budget
ü Flexible approach (leverage only the service components you need)
ü Cost management

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WIRELESS SURVEYS
Park Place provides a full spectrum of services to access, design, survey, install, and
commission your wireless solution.
Predictive Survey
Survey models the Radio
Frequency (“RF”) environment
using simulation tools to create
an AP design based on location
and RF characteristics.
Benefits
ü PPT created design with certified
engineers
ü Interference modeled into the design
ü Uses accurate site information to model
future performance
Passive/Validation Survey
Evaluate existing wireless
coverage and performance by
“listening” to WLAN traffic to
detect access points, signal
strength and noise levels.
Benefits
ü Remediate channel overlap
ü Eliminate security threats (rogue devices)
ü Identify noise/interference
ü Identify coverage improvements
ü Verify wireless LAN operating in
accordance with design
AP-on-a-Stick
A PPT engineer physically
places and access point on a
specified location. This survey
records the RF behavior within
its respective environment.
This ensures it is uniquely
tailored and provides real
results.
Benefits
ü 100% accurate pre=deployment analysis
ü Determine the optimal locations for
access point placement
ü Ensure that adequate coverage overlap
exists for client roaming
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IT ASSET DISPOSITION
Service includes disposition of all computing devices from
large mainframes and storage arrays to end-user devices like
phones and PDAs:

• Secure on-site or offsite erasure

• Drive destruction
• Equipment recycling and hardware resale

Key Benefits:
ü Single vendor solution
ü Proven global solution
ü Secure chain of custody processing
ü Full-service process from de-install, packing, transportation,
erasure/destruction processing, recycling and certificate delivery
ü Fill gaps in your ITAD strategy with a single contract

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STAFF AUGMENTATION
A full range of global IT staffing services for technical positions,
from field engineers for data center infrastructure support to
server/virtualization, network and storage engineers to DBAs:

Key Benefits:
ü Contractors slot into existing structures like standard employees, allowing
for easier management of resources
ü Integrate contract resources with existing business processes instead of
trying to manage off-site or outsourced teams
ü Reduce the burden on permanent workforce and reduce the rate of stress
and absenteeism
ü Get the work completed when there is little to no lead time for a project
ü Scale up and down based on revenue upturns or client need without the
associated payroll liabilities
ü Pay-as-you-need. Simply pay the rate multiplied by the number of hours
worked with no ongoing commitments

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DEPLOYMENTS
Deployment of IT equipment at client specified locations including
data center assets (storage, server and networking device) end-user
assets such as desktops and laptops:

• Physical installation
• Configuration and troubleshooting
• Bringing assets to operationally readiness

Key Benefits:
ü Reduced costs for large-scale rollouts or refreshes
ü Reduced risk by ensuring consistency in the tasks performed at each
installation location
ü Faster deployments
ü Free up resources
ü Single vendor responsible for deployment

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DATA MIGRATIONS
Delivery of storage related migration services, driven by storage
change: platform change, consolidation, storage refresh and/or
upgrades.

• SAN Block Level Storage

• File / Unstructured Data
• Physical and Virtual Host Storage

Key Benefits:
ü Proven phased migration methodology that reduces risk, cost and time.
ü We plan, manage and orchestrate the safe & efficient migration of critical data
ü Provides standardized, scalable, end-to-end project management, and closed-
loop governance
ü Each engagement designed to the customers exact needs not one size fits all
approach
ü Turnkey project management and engineering services

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