What to do with all the hard drives kicking about when it comes time for a refresh cycle or to decommission parts of a data center?
When companies decide to upgrade and replace, or dispose of, outdated equipment, one of the considerations must be how to wipe the data from those devices, or otherwise sanitize the hard drives where the data resides. What accreditations should you look out for when evaluating vendors to support your data wiping needs?
Companies must also plan for what to do with hardware and infrastructure once the data has been sanitized. Can the hardware be repurposed for other uses in the enterprise, or does it make financial and operational sense to retire assets? If retiring assets, how can you maximize value recovery from the hardware?
Our infographic lays out key items for consideration when approaching a data center decommissioning or refresh cycle from the perspective of best practices for storage hardware management.
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