Iron Mountain's holistic approach to data centre decommissioning
The world's leading cloud service providers, data centre operators, and enterprises partner with Iron Mountain to unlock untapped potential and value from their outbound hardware. Learn more about our integrated approach that protects your data, maximises your financial returns and reduces environmental impact.
Mitigate risk, maximise value and evolve your data centre with the worlds most secure, sustainable, and efficient decommissioning solutions.
One-Stop Shop Decommissioning
Iron Mountain Secure ITAD.
Hardware decommissioning can put a significant burden on your data centre. From operational strain and complex processes, to a lack of streamlined execution and the risk of a data breach, you need an expert partner to handle it all.
The world's leading cloud service providers, data centre operators, and enterprises partner with Iron Mountain to unlock untapped potential and value from their outbound hardware. Our integrated approach protects your data, maximises your financial returns and reduces environmental impact.
From deployment to decommissioning, our comprehensive expertise, technology, and services help you get the most out of the full lifecycle of your data centre assets.
Secure, scalable, efficient: Iron Mountain is your single point of contact for end-to-end decommissioning.
Iron Mountain is your partner for:
- Total, secure data destruction
- Efficient certified decommissioning processes
- Unmatched value recovery
- E-waste and carbon reduction
Customised Decommissioning Solutions for Your Business
Designed in collaboration with the world's largest and most demanding data centre operators, Iron Mountain offers efficient, secure, and scalable decommissioning services tailored to your unique needs.
No matter how large or varied your operational footprint is, Iron Mountain has the experience, physical resources, and global presence to handle it. We operate in the most complex environments all over the world across sites, co-location facilities, and small points of presence.
Our facilities have state-of-the-art security and are designed for maximum efficiency. Whether full racks or parallelised equipment, our specialized logistics chain offers the highest level of operational effectiveness.
The Iron Mountain Advantage
Speed
Most efficient data centre solutions on the planet, 7-10X faster end-to-end.
Compliance
We provide a fully traceable audit trail for each serialised asset, from erasure to final disposition.
Solutions that fit
We customise processes to fit your precise requirements, with the flexibility to adjust for the most complex scenarios.
Data security
We fully erase 95%+ of drives— compared to the industry norm of 50%—and fully decommission 100%.
Bottom line
$1 billion+ generated for our clients from the resale of decommissioned assets.
Increase Speed and Operational Efficiency
No matter the challenge or the number of assets, our proprietary data erasure software, Teraware, provides a fast and complete solution to every data sanitisation challenge. With complete data destruction in 1-2 days, we deliver the world’s most efficient onsite decommissioning solution.
Our hyperscale expertise enables us to optimise processes and logistics to solve your most complex decommissioning needs without disrupting your business.
With Iron Mountain, you can expect:
- Fully transparent, scalable data erasure services
- 95% data erasure yield in one to two days
- Streamlined physical removal and logistics
Maximise Returns, Minimise Risks.
Let our experts help you maximise your financial returns through the resale of decommissioned assets.
Iron Mountain continuously develops leading edge strategies to sell assets at scale and deliver the maximum ROI to our clients.
Iron Mountain is the world’s # 1 reseller of hyperscale data centre hardware.
Maximise your bottom line with returns that are higher than what our competitors can offer.
As a one-stop-shop for the entire hardware asset lifecycle, Iron Mountain:
- Recertifies, reconfigures, and resells full systems
- Remanufactures memory
- Sells components
By partnering with Iron Mountain, you can:
Eliminate Risk & Maximise Financial Returns with Iron Mountain
To meet tomorrow’s demands, you need to scale faster than ever before. Let Iron Mountain customise a decommissioning solution that removes the operational burden and helps you maximize the lifetime value of your assets.
- Achieve maximum security ensured via ADISA data sanitisation certifications and Iron Mountain’s end-to-end audit trail.
- Increase operational efficiency with Iron Mountain’s turnkey processes and logistics.
- Yield higher value recovery with a completely rearchitected data centre asset lifecycle
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At Iron Mountain, we strive to be our customers’ most trusted partner for protecting and unlocking the value of what matters most to them in innovative and socially responsible ways