Case Studies

• Moving with a lease space termination deadline

• Technology refresh & employee purchase program

• Consolidation/Downsizing

• Closing a location

• Equipment off-lease capital recovery

• Opening a new location on a tight budget 

 

Businesses today must continuously adapt to changing conditions. As a result, it is frequently necessary to bring about a great deal of change in a very short period of time. Gorilla Data Gear specializes in jumping through just these types of flaming hoops. Some examples follow:

• Case Study 1: Lease Space Termination Deadline (Move/Close/Consolidate)

A web hosting company in the Los Angeles area was closing a location. Somehow, the impending date to vacate their 10nth floor location was lost in the many necessary requirements of their move. Suddenly, they recognized that they had less than four days to get their hosting facility completely removed from the premises. Failure to do so would result in substantial penalty fees from their lessor. An endless array of racks, detailed cable management, hundreds of servers, workstations and networking equipment needed to be dismantled, inventoried and removed from the tenth floor of an executive type office building. To make matters worse, no equipment could be removed during normal business hours. Gorilla Data Gear utilized technicians, electricians and all necessary moving personnel to make the removal and move happen. Working only after hours, frequently into early AM hours, the job was complete and on time. The entire space was delivered as scheduled to the lessor, clean and empty, and no penalties were incurred by our client.

• Case Study 2: Technology Refresh & Employee Purchase Program

A successful and growing financial institution in California has a policy of performing a regular technology refresh schedule in order to maintain their level of competitive edge. In many cases, the gear that is being removed and replaced still has years of good service delivery remaining. Gorilla Data Gear works with upper management, and the IT Services group, to identify and label computers, laptops and other components that are to be replaced and that their employees would be interested in owning. We publicize and staff employee purchase days through which the employees have an opportunity to purchase the identified products. These events bond employees to the company while returning a portion of the company’s capital investment in cash-purchased and outdated components. The employees love the events and the opportunity to gain an added benefit from the company. The company gets a partial return on their old technology investment while implementing their newer and more effective solutions.

• Case Study 3: Opening a New Location on a Tight Budget

Because we have occasion to inventory and test a wide variety of communications equipment, we can often offer our clients an alternative source of components for their use. We recently had one such request from an entrepreneur who was about to open a new office on a very limited budget. Gorilla Data Gear was able to immediately provide fifteen workstations, a central server, a data switch, a router with firewall and a telephone system, all at a small fraction of what he might otherwise have had to spend. We warranted all of the equipment that we provided to him, together with a contact to install all of his gear. We even arranged for a company to provide and install his office furniture and cubicles. Quickly, easily and economically, Gorilla Data Gear had helped him achieve some of the essential steps to implement his new business.