01.Review
We comprehensively review your data center to identify opportunities to maximize returns through remarketing and reuse.
Increasingly, organizations are recognizing the economic and operational benefits of the circular economy by incorporating IT remarketing into their critical business processes.
A well-structured IT asset recovery plan allows your firm to maintain data security, reduce your environmental footprint, while recovering maximum value for retired assets.
Horizon builds custom plans that meet the individual needs of its clients through its proven IT remarketing programs.
Our trusted asset recovery programs offer:
- Best-in-class data sanitization.
- Workflows & rigorous logistics with embedded system level checks, ensuring you’re protected throughout the process.
- Secure chain of custody so you know where your product is at all times.
- Repair and grading to maximize returns.
- Industry-leading certifications: whether or not you do business with us, don’t take chances with your brand.
At all stages of the process, we place the highest premium on the security of data on retiring devices.
Best-in-class data sanitization
Data sanitization is too often defined only in terms of wiping drives. At Horizon, we define data sanitization in terms of workflow in its entirety, from the time drives are decommissioned from servers through sanitization and processing for reuse or disposal.
We have been working in the storage space for more than 25 years developing solutions and workflows supporting the most recognized names in the industry. Horizon has the experience and technological know-how to deliver uncompromising results for you.
Our process for data sanitization is best-in-class. Each drive is tested, wiped, and post-wipe checked for data to exacting standards, whether onsite or in our dedicated wiping facilities. Our workflows are integrated into our transaction management software, with built-in system levels checks ensuring full compliance.
- Best-in-class process for data sanitization.
- Any device that cannot be successfully sanitized is physically shredded to ensure no data can be recovered.
- Serialized certificates of data wipe and drive destruction are generated for all processed drives.
- Outbound shipments are systematically audited a second time by individual drives for wipe results at the outbound audit (OBA).
Our workflow is built from the same Shop Floor Control System we designed more than 25 years ago to meet the exacting standards that support the most recognizable names in the hardware business.
Each drive that enters our system is tracked by individual serial number as it passes through key workflow junctures. If a work order calls for a drive to be flashed with OEM-specific firmware, our system validates the task has been completed before the drive can pass to the next workflow juncture.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR SANITIZATION WORKFLOWExcellence in logistics
Logistics is a key element in the asset recovery supply chain, requiring transparency and security.
We have used a variety of Transportation Management Systems over the years but never felt they fully met our needs—so we developed our own called FreightPOP, a simple-to-use interface that allows you to quickly find the lowest rate with carriers that meets your needs. With more than 25 years’ experience in the sector, we have had a chance to work with a range of carriers and are confident we know how to identify the best-in-breed.
All our services include serialized asset identifications down to the pallet, with serialized pallet IDs ensuring full traceability. We employ a variety of security measures as standard operating procedure, with the option of adding enhanced security options.
Standard Operating Procedure
- Video surveillance at warehousing location
- Inside pickup, secure pallet wrap, and pallet ID
- Direct route/Direct flight
- Limit number of cross docks to destination
- Serialized asset list
Security Enhancements
- Dedicated truck with unique seal
- Vehicle GPS
- Pallet GPS
- Containerized locking/tamper evident pallet
- Unique cages at warehousing/crossdock locations to secure goods waiting for next leg of journey
- Route specific shipment / milestone updates – if truck makes unscheduled stop or takes a different street/route, an alert is sent
- Armored Car (high end)
- Security Escort (high end)
We scrupulously follow all chain of custody requirements to ensure hardware is secure and accounted for at every step.
GET IN TOUCHIndustry-leading ITAD certifications
Horizon possesses the required certifications to ensure that you are compliant in the disposal of your retired assets. All data sanitization is completed in strict accordance with NIST SP 800-88 standards and, when applicable, DoD 5220.22-M. We work with you to ensure exactly the right approach to sanitization for each workload.
We are also a R2-certified responsible recycler with R2 compliant workflows, protocols, and system-level evaluations ensuring that items are properly processed for sale. Non-saleable items are processed within local, state and federal requirements.
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Did You Know?
Horizon customers are recovering more than $1 million in annualized asset value for IT hardware they previously viewed as a disposition headache?
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We will not only recover you value. We will save you the heavy lifting.
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