Developing a decommissioning plan for data centers
Requires redesign, relocation, or renovation of your data center. Perhaps you are preparing for a disaster relief effort. Data center decommissioning involves many complexities, including making sure all data is safe, the project completes efficiently, and all decommissioning goes as planned. It is also important to create a data center decommissioning plan for smooth asset recovery to save time and money. The plan should describe how equipment will be removed, how data will be destroyed, and how assets will be disposed of. Keeping ahead of project pitfalls and money sinks is possible when you decommission data centers according to a clear plan. You could lose money if you do not make use of old equipment during server decommissioning without a comprehensive plan. This blog discusses a five-step decommissioning plan that includes equipment removal, capacity planning, the destruction of corporate data (by secure erasure software), as well as asset disposition. Addi...