The High Cost of Cluttered Data Centers

Return Material Authorization (RMA) hard drives should be returned, under warranty, to the manufacturer for a replacement or refund. However, these drives may contain sensitive data, such as employee or customer records. Many times, faulty or end-of-life hard drives are kept onsite, creating penalty fees for “keep my disk” clauses in lease controls, as well as simply taking up space and incurring storage fees.

Research conducted by Coleman Parkes for Blancco in December 2018, including responses from 600 Data Center experts in APAC, Europe and North America, shows that inefficient data sanitization processes like these are costing some organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. For others, more than half of their onsite IT assets are essentially dead weight, resulting in the loss of efficiency, increasing capital costs, possible noncompliance and potential security risks.

RThirteen percent of Japanese organizations are paying over £500k each year to keep their “past-due” leased drives and servers onsite. Overall, Japanese organizations are paying £268,300 to keep old IT assets onsite.

Download the research now to learn about:

• Top Data Center Challenges
• Challenges of Keeping Out-of-Date Assets Onsite
• Limitations of Data Destruction & Encryption
• Tips for Creating More Efficient Data Sanitization Practices
• One Easy Way to Save Money in Your Data Center

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