DATA CENTER DECOMMISSIONING SERVICES

Before a data center manager retires clusters of rack servers, storage arrays and network hardware, they usually first look at developing an IT disposal strategy. Most data center IT disposal strategies will be a combination of tactics that include; recycling, selling, and destroying the decommissioned equipment. For example, it is fair to say that nearly all data center managers decide to destroy their old storage drives. Even if a drive has failed, it will still end up being shredded. Whatever the method of disposal, pretty much all data center managers require a singular, “MUST HAVE” disposal need! Namely:

“Get that old IT hardware OUT OF HERE RIGHT NOW!”

We get it, and we know that lack of floor space, rack space, and storage space can launch a data center manager into OUTER SPACE! That’s why our ITAD data center decommissioning service prioritizes the need for speed and efficiency.

To be fair, most large-scale data centers split their infrastructure and server halls into easily manageable zones. This approach is great for helping hardware operations teams with their deployments, maintenance, upgrades and repairs. It also massively helps our data center decommissioning engineers to work their magic.

Security permissions aside, the overall decommissioning and removal of server, storage and network equipment along with their rack enclosures is pretty straight forward. In fact, our ITAD data center decommissioning service can usually clear out large quantities of servers and networking hardware within days.

Most data center managers choose not to sell their decommissioned servers and network hardware. More often than not, they just want to reclaim the floorspace and will leave the disposal of computing and storage hardware to our ITAD company. Mind you, if the data center equipment holds a high enough resell value, we will either offer to buy it or zero out all the costs associated with disposal (e.g.: removal engineers, transportation, hard drive shredding and so on).

“What about ethical & environmentally responsible disposal?”

Our ITAD ECO Plus data center hardware decommissioning program has been created to provide IT managers with a greener disposal solution. It includes a cutting-edge data sanitization solution, pollution free computer disposal methods, and a harvesting program designed to reduce a data centers carbon footprint. It’s our mission to remove all of the disposal costs where possible and to provide an environmentally responsible, IT sustainable data center decommissioning solution.