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Maximizing Asset Value Recovery to Offset the Cost of Decommissioning a Data Center

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Today’s enterprises depend heavily on the applications, services, and data contained within the data center. But at some point, there will come a time when an enterprise needs to re-evaluate its existing technology, consolidate IT infrastructure, or migrate to a new site. In these cases, existing data centers, whether on-premises or in co-location facilities, may …

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Do You Know Where Your Data Lives? Reducing Risk When Decommissioning Enterprise Data Centers

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Today’s enterprises are collecting, storing, and using more data than ever before. A 2022 IDG Research survey found that, on average, data volumes are growing by 63 percent per month across organizations. No matter the size of the enterprise, the threat of data leaks and breaches of sensitive information are among the top priorities for …

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Reduce E-waste and Maximize Asset Value Recovery When Decommissioning a Data Center

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Decommissioning an enterprise data center is a large and complex project that requires hundreds of hours of effort and specialized expertise. IT departments are responsible for migrating applications and workloads, securing sensitive data, and physically removing IT assets from existing facilities, often within tight schedules and specified budgets. Once the assets are removed, however, enterprises …

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Sphaera Successfully Delivers High-speed Fiber Connectivity in Idaho

Case Study

Sphaera helped an Idaho local municipality apply for and successfully receive federal grant funding to deliver High Speed Fiber Optic connectivity to an under-served area of the state. The only stipulation of the grant awarded was the requirement to have the connectivity established within 120 days. The scope included the installation of a completely new street-utility electrical service, a backup generator, backup batteries, fiber optic cable, network routing & security equipment, and a power conversion system to drive the equipment. This project was completed on time, on budget and exceeded the scope of redundant critical infrastructure requirements.

Certified Data Destruction Services

Data Sheet

Sphaera, Inc., based in Hillsboro, Oregon, is an IT Asset and Data Center Infrastructure Lifecycle Management company with a direct focus on data sanitization and destruction, asset recovery, logistics and install/refresh/de-install services. We have an outstanding track record of success with projects ranging in size from a few servers up to entire data center decommissions, conducted all over the globe.

Sphaera Decommissions a 7,500 sq. ft. Data Suite in Iceland

Case Study

Recently, Sphaera successfully completed decommissioning that comprised nearly all of the complexities that can be present in such a project; a host Data Center located on an island within the arctic circle, IT hardware and cabling removal, component-level inventory to affect return of leased assets and sale of owned assets, import/export and customs work for shipments bound for the US and to the UK, data sanitization and physical destruction, coordination of logistics via air and sea, restoration of leased space to original condition, inspection and return to landlord….all in 14 days.

5 Things To Know Before You Decommission Your Data Center

White Paper & Industry Publication

While it may seem simple to tear out equipment, there are significant risks that must be accounted for when engaging in a data center decommissioning and migration project, including data breach of sensitive information, reputational damages and lost business, business continuity, uptime and impact on disaster recovery environment, as well as regulatory & compliance risks.

This white paper highlights some of the key lessons enterprise data center operators should know before decommissioning or migrating their data centers based on the experience gained from years of work with enterprises of all sizes.

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