The Cloud Left Servers Behind
THE CRUNCH · EP 22
TAP TO PAUSE
PAUSED — TAP TO RESUME
Every cloud migration project plan ends at the same milestone: cutover. Workloads verified, users moved, champagne. What the plan rarely covers is the physical aftermath — racks of servers, storage arrays, and network gear that used to run those workloads, every component holding copies of the data that just moved.
Legacy infrastructure in a post-migration data center is the storeroom problem at industrial scale: powered down, unmonitored, and full of exactly the data your cloud security program now protects so carefully on the other side.
Closing out properly means decommissioning with chain of custody, certified destruction of every data-bearing component with serialized certificates, and remarketing the hardware that still has value — often enough to offset a meaningful slice of the migration's cost. The migration is done when the legacy data is provably gone.
We decommission, destroy, and remarket legacy infrastructure — with the certificates that close the project for real.