Asset Lifecyle Management Services

Protect your data. Protect the environment. Protect your bottom line.

One of the most valuable assets and resources that your company owns is its data. It’s also important to your team because competitors and cybercriminals are also itching to get their digital hands on your data, which is why you need to protect your information from the time it is created until it's securely destroyed.

To protect your data, it’s imperative that the hardware assets on which your data resides are governed by effective asset lifecycle management (ALM). Secure destruction is key to keeping this resource safe, but it's also important to do so during its entire lifecycle.

Asset lifecycle management is a strategic approach to IT enterprise asset management that protects your data, ensures optimised utilisation, maximises your return on investment, and minimises your environmental impact.

Iron Mountain can partner with you to develop a programme that cares for your IT assets from deployment and active usage to retirement and disposition, supported by our industry-leading data security and sustainability measures.

Iron Mountain’s ALM services include:

Configuration, imaging, asset life tagging, rollout, and discovery
Inventory management and deployment
Decommissioning and data erasure
Remarketing, reclaiming, and recycling to recover value

* subject to geographic availability

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Why Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain takes asset lifecycle management services to the next level when it comes to technology lifecycle management. Here’s how our approach to IT Asset lifecycle management elevates your practices to help you maximise efficiency, reduce risk, increase competitive advantage, and exceed your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

* subject to geographic availability

HOW IRON MOUNTAIN IS DIFFERENT

At every step of the ITAD journey, we provide meaningful end-to-end data protection. Starting with world-class logistics and global tracking services, we send our fleet of purpose-built trucks with advanced security features, operated by our carefully vetted and trained personnel, right to your doors. We then process your assets, ensuring a transparent, auditready, and traceable chain of custody with complete and comprehensive data destruction.

With more frequent individual device and data centre infrastructure refresh cycles, maximising agility, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI) is key for your competitive edge. Through our data center remarketing services, customers report higher value recovery versus competitors, which helps fund tech refreshes and alleviate stretched budgets.

Total Data Destruction

10M+ drives sanitised
100% sector-verified erasure guaranteed
No data was recovered from the drives we sanitised

Efficient, Certified Decommissioning Process

Data sanitisation complete in 1-2 days
Data Centre decommissioning complete in weeks vs. months
1M+ servers and 3M+ drives processed annually

Unmatched Value Recovery

The world's #1 IT asset remarketing programme
We make the market to maximise client-recovered value
Clients report up to 45% higher returns

When you work with Iron Mountain, you can rely on our enhanced functionality and secure IT asset disposition (ITAD). We prioritise a secure chain of custody for every device or piece of equipment.

From onsite data sanitisation, de-installation, and device pickup to sustainable asset disposition, having one partner streamlines operations while reducing maintenance costs and managing security risks.

According to Gartner,

“The three most important tasks to execute correctly, and to which ITAD executives should pay special attention, are transportation logistics/chain of custody, data sanitisation and recycling.”

Iron Mountain is recognised as a Representative Provider in the Gartner Market Guide for IT Asset Disposition for the fourth time consecutively. Download your copy of the 2023 Market Guide .

Gartner Market Guide for IT Asset Disposition; Rob Schafer, Christopher Dixon;
January 23, 2023

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The Iron Mountain Advantage

YOUR SENSITIVE DATA. OUR BEST-IN-CLASS SECURITY.

At every step of the ITAD journey, we provide meaningful end-to-end data protection. Starting with world-class logistics and global tracking services, we send our fleet of purpose-built trucks with advanced security features, operated by our carefully vetted and trained personnel, right to your doors. We then process your assets, ensuring a transparent, audit-ready, and traceable chain of custody with complete and comprehensive data destruction.

DELIVER MAXIMUM VALUE RECOVERY AND DRIVE ROI

With more frequent individual device and data centre infrastructure refresh cycles, maximising agility, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI) is key for your competitive edge. Through our data center remarketing services, customers report higher value recovery versus competitors, which helps fund tech refreshes and alleviate stretched budgets. ‌

From onsite data sanitisation, deinstallation, and device pickup to sustainable asset disposition, having one partner streamlines operations while reducing maintenance costs and managing security risks.

WHERE SUSTAINABILITY IS THE NEW IT NORM

Continuous technological innovation has produced an explosion of e-waste which has resulted in increased regulation focused on improving global sustainability. At every step of the way, we work with our customers to reduce their carbon emissions and e-waste.

By enabling faster and less disruptive refresh cycles, we make it easier for companies to quickly deploy newer, more efficient, and environmentally friendly technology. At the same time, our remarketing and recycling programmes minimise the amount of material entering waste streams. And our comprehensive, audit-ready reporting helps you manage performance against your ESG targets.

UNMATCHED OFFERINGS WITH A GLOBAL REACH

Your success is our success. With every interaction, we take the complexity and worry out of managing IT asset disposition (ITAD) for enterprises at any scale. We pride ourselves on a unique combination of global reach with a local focus that meets our customers wherever they do business, now offering ITAD services in over 30 countries. As one of the largest and most established players in IT asset disposition, we’re uniquely equipped to support all requirements.

SECURE ITAD BY THE NUMBERS

3M+ DRIVES

Sanitised per year

$1B+ GENERATED

For clients via remarketing

650K+ END-USER ASSETS

Processed per year

32 COUNTRIES

Supported globally

With most IT teams fully consumed by their “day jobs”—setting up new employees’ computers, managing network security, deploying and supporting applications, and maintaining infrastructure—there’s almost no time left to focus on best practices for IT asset disposition.

Whether it’s managing tech for remote workers, scaling facilities due to M&A activity, consolidations, or migration to the cloud, we’re here to help. Our portfolio of solutions enables your team to work with a single trusted partner.

Are you ready to improve your asset lifecycle management with the Iron Mountain advantage? Reach out to our team today to get started.

How our services elevate your Asset Lifecycle Management

Want to consolidate your IT asset management to gain global visibility and control? We’ve got you covered.

Data erasure: Reduce disruption, minimise environmental impacts, and increase recovery value by comprehensively sanitising every data-bearing device. Decommission even the largest data centres 7 – 10 times faster and virtually eliminate the risk of data loss.
IT asset remarketing: Recover maximum value and drive ROI with Iron Mountain’s industry-leading asset remarketing capabilities.
Environmentally responsible dispositioning: Ensure that all decommissioning activities adhere to industry best practices and regulatory compliance for environmental impact and Occupational Health and Safety.
Secure chain of custody: Identify and track every serialised asset, with multiple checkpoints and secure logistics, from client sites to world-class processing centres.

Whether it’s managing tech for remote workers, scaling facilities due to M&A activity, consolidations, or migration to the cloud, we’re here to help. Our portfolio of solutions enables your team to work with a single trusted partner. We provide: