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No matter how large or varied your data centre footprint is, Iron Mountain has the experience, physical resources, and global presence to support you with secure and sustainable asset lifecycle management services. We operate in the most complex environments all over the world across owned sites, co-location facilities, and small points of presence.
Our large breadth of services ensure strict security and audit compliance, while maximising value recovery from retired hardware. Iron Mountain ensures unmatched data security through a secure chain of custody that tracks IT assets at every stage of their journey.
Data centre decommissioning is the process of securely retiring, relocating or removing IT infrastructure during events such as cloud migrations, technology refreshes, facility consolidations or data centre closures. It involves planning, asset inventory, data sanitisation, equipment removal and responsible IT asset disposition to ensure retired assets are managed securely and efficiently.


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View moreAs we develop a service plan that complements your data centre strategy, we will also ensure we are meeting your requirements for technology integrations, project management, and reporting.
From asset receiving and tagging to storage, we ensure your assets are visible and available when you need them.
Deployment marks the transition of hardware from preparation to active use. Our industry-leading logistics ensure timely and accurate delivery of your data centre assets.
When it comes to the removal of data centre infrastructure, Iron Mountain provides an industry-leading chain of custody for asset collections.
Our ADISA-certified, NIST 800-88 compliant data sanitisation service ensures the secure remarketing of HDD and SSD storage devices.
When data centre 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.
Every data centre decommissioning project follows a structured process to minimise risk, protect sensitive data and maximise the value of retired IT assets.

Our professional data centre decommissioning services help you securely retire IT infrastructure while minimising risk and maximising business value. This includes:
"The three most important tasks to execute correctly, and to which ITAD executives should pay special attention, are transportation logistics/chain of custody, data sanitisation, and recycling. These three tasks represent the greatest risk in the ITAD process, and they should be handled by an experienced, well-vetted ITAD service provider."
Iron Mountain is recognised as a Representative Provider in the Gartner Market Guide for IT Asset Disposition for the sixth consecutive time.
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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.
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.
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 14 days. Remarketing the retired assets netted the client several million dollars, helping to close budget gaps.
