Steel City Consulting is a UK-based technology partner specialising in enterprise IT infrastructure, data centre hardware, and lifecycle services. We help organisations navigate complex technology challenges with practical, sustainable solutions that align with long-term business goals.
Our team has decades of combined experience supporting demanding IT environments with non‑negotiable uptime, compliance, and scalability requirements.
Steel City Consulting supports international organisations operating complex, business-critical IT environments – including, but not limited to:
We provide actionable IT strategy that takes a holistic view of the role technology plays within the business, ensuring infrastructure decisions align with long-term operational and commercial goals. Our work includes:
Alongside our experienced account managers, these services are supported by our qualified engineers, whose skills span networking, compute, storage, and hybrid cloud environments. From design through to deployment and ongoing support, we are well-positioned to collaborate with your business.
Steel City Consulting was founded on deep technical expertise, long-standing vendor partnerships, and a commitment to commercial fairness. We take time to understand each client’s environment, operational constraints, budget framework, and long-term objectives before making recommendations.
Steel City holds true to our four core values:
Accountability – We take ownership of our recommendations and implementations, ensuring clients can rely on us to deliver on commitments and outcomes.
Integrity – We make decisions and provide guidance that are right for the client, not the vendor, building trust through transparency and fairness.
Collaboration – We work closely with clients to turn complex challenges into shared solutions, informed by a deep understanding of their environment and objectives.
Creativity – We combine technical expertise with innovative thinking to design practical, adaptable solutions that solve complex, real-world problems.
1. Clear, evidence-based guidance
We provide technically-justified recommendations that align with operational requirements and long-term objectives. Our advice is intended to support informed decision-making, with clarity around suitability, trade-offs, and expected outcomes.
2. Predictable delivery in production environments
We focus on solutions that can be deployed, supported, and scaled reliably in live enterprise environments. This means realistic lead times, validated configurations, and outcomes that align with agreed expectations.
3. Thorough problem-solving for complex challenges
We regularly support environments shaped by legacy platforms, compliance requirements, or multi-vendor dependencies. Our teams work through these complexities methodically, ensuring solutions are resilient for long-term operation.
4. Solutions designed for real-world operations
Our recommendations take into account compatibility, supportability, lifecycle planning, and the way infrastructure is operated day-to-day. This helps to ensure solutions integrate smoothly into existing environments and remain manageable over time.
5. Long-term accountability
Our approach is built around long-term relationships, with technical and commercial support extending beyond initial deployment. This allows returning clients to adapt their platforms and make informed investment decisions as requirements evolve.
We firmly believe that sustainability and commercial viability don’t have to be mutually exclusive. At the heart of everything we do is a passion to help companies affordably lower their carbon footprint and prevent asset lifecycles ending in landfills.
Through secure data destruction, hardware remanufacturing, and end-to-end lifecycle services, we enable organisations to extend asset performance, recover value from IT investments, and lead by example in sourcing, deploying, and retiring technology through responsible and secure methods.
See figures on our positive impact in 2025 below.
Repurposing IT hardware delivers immediate carbon savings before even a single watt of electricity is used.
In 2025, we repurposed 2,150 units of used and refurbished IT hardware, helping to avoid an estimated 935,000kg CO₂e in emissions by reducing demand for newly manufactured hardware. Simultaneously, keeping 21.5 tonnes of equipment in productive use and out of landfill.
2,150 total units
Switches: 2,000 units
Servers: 200 units
Storage Arrays: 100 units
935,000kg CO₂e avoided
Switches: 700,000kg CO₂e
Servers: 110,000kg CO₂e
Storage arrays: 125,000kg CO₂e
(Manufacturing-stage emissions)
21,500kg hardware kept in use
Switches: 16,000kg
Servers: 2,500kg
Storage arrays: 3,000kg
Figures calculated based on used & refurbished IT hardware sold in 2025.
This year, we are aiming to deliver even greater impact, with a target of saving 1.5 million kg CO₂e in avoided emissions.
By trading in legacy devices, your business can keep enterprise hardware re-purposed and in active circulation, significantly reducing environmental impact by extending its usable life and diverting it from landfill.
Our structured buy-back programme unlocks business capital from surplus or end-of-life IT hardware, applying returns as cash or credit to support strategic upgrade plans.
Our secure, compliant ITAD process protects enterprise data and provides auditable asset tracking through controlled end-of-life hardware disposal.
Our long-standing partnerships with industry-leading vendors give us direct access to enterprise-grade hardware, software, and support. We leverage these relationships to design solutions that are right for the client, not the vendor, ensuring every recommendation is technically robust, reliable, and commercially sensible.
By combining vendor expertise with our consultancy-led approach, we deliver solutions that meet complex IT challenges while aligning with your business goals.
From an ageing IT infrastructure and costly downtime, to £400,000 in savings by choosing refurbished servers from HPE Renew over the cloud.
In 2025, we supported STS Commercial to remove system bottlenecks, future-proof their data storage, and handle the financial sector’s heavy processing demands – all delivered well under budget.
Discover how our expertise and partnerships can strengthen your IT infrastructure. Contact us today to discuss your challenges and explore tailored solutions.
