Secure Data Center Decommissioning

Secure Data Center Decommissioning
Safe, secure, and sustainable data center decommissioning
When the time comes to move or retire data-bearing IT assets from your data centers, it’s absolutely critical to securely and efficiently decommission those assets.
It’s the only way to truly protect your data.

How We Can Help
How We Are Different
From consolidation to decommissioning of data centers, we deliver expert end-to-end services. We not only make it easy for companies to store their information with us, but we’re also there when it’s time to break down and responsibly dispose of all data center assets.
Let our experts help you increase operational efficiency, achieve maximum ROI, and ensure comprehensive data security with:

Total Data Destruction
- 10M+ drives sanitized
- 100% sector verified erasure guaranteed
- No data recovered from drives we sanitized. Ever.

Efficient, Certified Decommissioning Process
- Data sanitization complete in 1-2 days
- Data center decom complete in weeks vs. months
- 1M+ servers and 3M+ drives processed annually

Unmatched Value Recovery
- The world's #1 IT asset remarketing program
- We make the market to maximize client recovered value
- Clients report up to 45% higher returns
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 sanitization and recycling.”
Iron Mountain is recognized 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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Customer Success Story: Hyperscale services provider
CHALLENGE
Arrival of new servers and storage, which were rapidly losing value while waiting for installation, placed a premium on accelerating decommissioning for this hyperscale services provider. While the nature of the business mandated maximum data security, the provider needed return on investment from asset remarketing to help fund increased tech refreshes.
SOLUTION
Iron Mountain’s custom data center decommissioning services safely, securely, and efficiently executed comprehensive data erasure, uninstallation, removal, and secure shipment of equipment to state-of-the-art processing facilities for remarketing.
RESULTS
All racks were data-free and ready to be wheeled out four days after the project started. All assets were removed from the client site within two weeks. Remarketing the retired assets netted the client $4.4 million, helping to close budget gaps.
- 297 racks
- 121,893 drives (HDD, SSD, flash cards)
- 100% of drives erased or securely destroyed, with certification
- Data elimination complete in 4 days
- All racks removed in 2 weeks
- Client proceeds: $4.4M
Ready to protect what matters most and maximize your ROI?
Contact Iron Mountain
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Contact Iron Mountain
Our Customer Support section can help provide you with the quickest answers to your questions, or feel free to contact us at your convenience.