The Short · 0:30 · CyberCrunch on YouTube
Shutting down a data center?
Shutting down a data center? CyberCrunch scans every asset by serial number, pulls, packs and ships it fully tracked, destroys the data on site or at its facility, and recovers value where it can. Certified to R2v3 and NAID AAA.
Transcript · the 30-second Short
When you shut down a data center, what happens to every drive? One lost drive can turn into a data breach. Meet CyberCrunch data center decommissioning. We scan every asset by serial number. Then we pull, pack and ship it, fully tracked. We destroy the data on site or at our facility. And recover value where we can. Certified to R2v3 and NAID AAA. Every rack cleared. Every drive accounted for.
Decommissioning a server room or a data hall is the rare project where the physical work is easy and the evidence is everything. Racks unbolt and trucks load — what's hard is proving, a year later, exactly which serialized devices left and what happened to each one's data.
The sequence that makes it defensible: build the serialized inventory before anything moves, and reconcile it against your asset system. Map the data and pick a NIST 800-88 method per media type — with on-site destruction for the sensitive tier if transport risk is unacceptable. Then sealed containers, numbered seals, and a signed chain of custody at every handoff.
Skip those steps and you're gambling at institutional scale. Morgan Stanley's decommissioning failures — a moving company with no data-destruction experience, devices resold with customer data aboard — cost more than $160 million across regulators and settlements, all of it public record. The close-out standard is simple to say: zero unexplained serials, and certificates that reconcile to the inventory you started with.
The complete phase-by-phase checklist covers inventory, sanitization decisions, custody, and the closeout records — with a downloadable working copy.
