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Asset Lifecycle Management

Secure Data Centre Decommissioning

Securely erase and dispose of your data assets with our comprehensive data centre decommissioning services.

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Safe, secure, and sustainable Data Centre Decommissioning

Figuring out how to securely destroy your hard drives and servers? When the time comes to move or retire data-bearing IT assets from your data centres such as servers and network equipment, it’s critical to ensure secure erasure and efficient asset decommissioning.

It’s the only way to truly protect your data.

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How Iron Mountain’s data centre decommissioning can help

Partnering with our team of experts ensures secure data destruction and responsible disposal of equipment, whether through remarketing, recycling, or compliant disposal. Our services include HDD, SSD and flashcard destruction, server recycling, and network and system decommissioning. With decades of information management experience, you can trust us to handle your data and assets with the highest level of care and security.

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 is Iron Mountain different?

From consolidation to decommissioning of data centres, Iron Mountain Hong Kong delivers expert end-to-end services. We make it easy for companies to store and securely dispose of their data centre assets, helping you achieve increased operational efficiency, maximise ROI, and ensure data security.

A deeper dive into our Data Centre Decommissioning process:

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

A flow chart showing Iron Mountain’s data centre decommissioning, from initial decommissioning and sanitisation, to shipping, processing, value recovery, global resale, value return, and system recertification and reuse.

What we process

Servers

Storage systems and devices

Networking gear

Computer tapes

Racking

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Customer success story: Accelerating data centre decommissioning for a 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.