Teraware - Iron Mountain’s industry-leading data sanitisation platform
This whitepaper provides an overview of the processes and specific steps associated with a comprehensive data sanitisation process for data centres across storage media types— including detailed drive discovery, asset specification mapping, handling failed or non-conforming assets, and issuing Certificates of Sanitisation.
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When people hear “data erasure” or “data wiping”, it often suggests a generic process for removing data from storage.
With years of experience processing millions of storage devices annually, Iron Mountain understands that simple overwriting is insufficient. Meeting rigorous business sanitisation standards is essential to safeguard against data breaches and data theft, addressing the high-stakes requirements of security- conscious organisations worldwide.
Teraware, designed specifically for enterprise needs, is a secure and highly effective data sanitisation platform. Developed and refined over more than a decade, Iron Mountain continues to evolve Teraware to meet the demands of the world’s most advanced and sophisticated data centres.
Teraware ensures complete data erasure for functional devices while flagging non-functional drives that cannot be sanitised. It provides a fully traceable audit trail and certification process, meeting the high standards expected by industry leaders worldwide and aligning with best-practise demands for secure, thorough data management.
Engineered specifically for data centre environments, Teraware excels in technologically complex IT settings and simplifies intricate processes. It securely sanitises mainstream storage types, both onsite and remotely, with scalability for large projects. When hardware errors prevent successful sanitisation, Teraware quickly flags those devices for secure destruction.
This paper will review the processes and specific steps associated with a comprehensive data sanitisation process across storage media types— including detailed drive discovery, asset specification mapping, handling failed or non-conforming assets and issuing Certificates of Sanitisation. We will also explore how Teraware scales smoothly to handle decommissioning at the hyperscale and enterprise data centre level performing these large- scale operations safely, securely and at speed.
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