Secure Data Centre Decommissioning

Secure Data Centre Decommissioning

Safe, secure, and sustainable data centRE decommissioning

When the time comes to move or retire data-bearing IT assets from your data centres, 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

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 HSE.

Secure Chain of Custody

Identify and track every serialised asset, wth multiple checkpoints and secure logistics, from client site to world-class processing centres.

How We Are Different

From consolidation to decommissioning of data centres, 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 centre assets.

Let our experts help you increase operational efficiency, achieve maximum ROI, and ensure comprehensive data security with:

Total Data Destruction

10M+ drives sanitised
100% sector verified erasure guaranteed
No data recovered from drives we sanitised. Ever.

Efficient, Certified Decommissioning Process

Data sanitisation complete in 1-2 days
Data centre decom 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

A deeper dive into our data centre decommissioning process:

What We Process: Servers | Storage Systems & Devices | Networking Gear | Computer Tapes | Racking

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 centre 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.