Data center decommissioning

As we develop a service plan that complements your data center strategy, we will also ensure we are meeting your requirements for technology integrations, project management, and reporting.

• API integration:
  Our tech integration ensures a streamlined workflow within your existing systems, improving the asset management experience for client administrators through frictionless case management, logistics scheduling, inventory management, dashboards, reporting, and workflow automations.
• Audit-ready reporting:
  Our on-demand reporting ensures you have easy access to inventory reports, audit reports, settlement reports, certificates of destruction (CODs), and sustainability reports that include metrics like e-waste diversion, materials recovered, and CO2 reduction.

From asset receiving and tagging to storage, we ensure your assets are visible and available when you need them.

• Inventory management:
  Our inventory management services, including asset receiving, tagging, tracking, and storage, ensure that your IT investment is well-managed and available for deployment when you need it.
  
  Asset tagging enables precise tracking through serialized labels, RFID tags, or barcodes. Comprehensive inventory management systems record each asset's status and location.
  
  Periodic audits are conducted to verify inventory accuracy and ensure policy adherence, mitigating the risk of loss or misappropriation of assets.

Deployment marks the transition of hardware from preparation to active use. Our industry-leading logistics ensure timely and accurate delivery of your data center assets.

• Forward logistics
  Our forward logistics services include meticulous record-keeping, including real-time asset status, providing a clear, on-demand view of the deployment landscape.

When it comes to the removal of data center infrastructure, Iron Mountain provides an industry-leading chain of custody for asset collections.

• Asset packing:
  Our technicians will expertly pack and remove your assets from your data center and transport them to our state-of-the-art facilities for further processing according to your requirements.
• Collection:
  Your ready-to-transport data center assets are individually scanned and picked up by our secure and reliable logistics team for transport back to our facilities for processing.

Our ADISA-certified, NIST 800-88 compliant data sanitization service ensures the secure remarketing of HDD and SSD storage devices.

• Data sanitization:
  All hard drives identified for reuse are thoroughly wiped using an ADISA-certified, NIST 800-88 compliant data sanitization platform. A serialized certificate of sanitization is provided for all sanitized assets. Learn more about Teraware in this video.
• Remarket:
  Our remarketing network enables the resale of servers and drives in the secondary market – offering value recovery back to your organization. We also provide a monthly settlement report to ensure transparency into the remarketing process.

When data center assets are no longer suitable for reuse, our onsite and offsite destruction options and sustainable e-waste recycling services ensure your assets are responsibly disposed of.

• Secure destruction & e-waste recycling:
  For the physical destruction of data-bearing assets, we offer onsite or offsite shredding of storage media. All physically destroyed media is accompanied by a certificate of destruction (COD). Physically shredded media and hardware of no residual value are separated into commodities and sent to R2 or e-Stewards-certified recyclers to be reintroduced into the supply chain, reducing the need for extracting raw materials from the earth.