SERVICE · DECOMMISSIONING

End of life, handled with care.

When hardware retires, the job isn't done until it's safely out, wiped and recycled. We treat decommissioning with the same care as the install.

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What we take off your hands

Retiring kit is a security and compliance risk when it's done sloppily: data left on drives, assets that quietly vanish from the books. We make sure that doesn't happen.

  • Secure removal from the rack
  • Data wiped or physically destroyed, to your policy
  • Responsible recycling (not landfill)
  • A record of what left and how it was handled
A retired hard drive being sealed into a static shielding bag for secure handling

HOW IT WORKS

One point of contact, end to end.

Decommissioning, or ITAD (IT asset disposal), is the safe retirement of end-of-life hardware: pulling it from the rack, erasing or destroying the data on it, and recycling what's left responsibly, with a record of what leaves the building.

We deliver this together with a specialist disposal partner, with Layer One as your single point of contact. You don't take on a separate vendor on top of everything else, you talk to us, and we make sure it's done right.

Removal, data erasure or physical destruction to your policy, and responsible recycling are handled through our specialist partner, with Layer One as your single point of contact from rack to disposal.

You get a record of what left and how it was handled. Retired kit is exactly where data quietly leaks and assets quietly disappear, so the paper trail is the point, not an afterthought.

The last step is the riskiest

Most data doesn't leak from live systems. It leaks from drives that left the building without being wiped. Decommissioning is the step that's most often rushed or skipped, so we treat it with the same care as the install.

A stack of removed hard drives being handled for secure data destruction

Moving datacenters? We can clear the old site in the same project: migrate what you keep, decommission what you don't.

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Need hands in the datacenter?

Tell us what you're running. We'll tell you how we'd handle it.