D ATA C E N T E R C A S E S T U D Y

Erasing Over 800 Servers Overnight for a
Multinational Technology CompanyResults Huge time andmanpower savings
vs. the “traditional”(one-by-one)erasure process Close to 900
servers securely
erased overnight All erasures camewith a Certificate ofErasure for auditing
and compliancepurposesIn the data center, time equals money. And any solution you
can invest in that saves you time is a win for your overall
organization. Decommissioning servers, hard drives andsolid-state drives is a pain point for many enterprise datacenters. Typically, if these IT assets are wiped or erased
before they are physically destroyed onsite or shipped
offsite, the process is extremely time-consuming, witheach asset having to be sanitized individually.
Challenge
A major multinational technology company was struggling with its
decommissioning solution. While it used physical destruction to sanitize someof the hardware that left its data center, the company needed a software erasuresolution to address erasure for servers that would remain in its network. Whilethe data erasure solution the technology company was using met some of theits needs, and it was not a mobile solution. In addition, though the software wasadvertised as being highly efficient, it had a high failure rate, and the physicalsetup was complicated.

Solution
The company used Blancco Data Center Eraser solution to decommission
servers in twenty of its global data centers. Efficiency, reliability, easy
monitoring, control, convenient setup and mobility were important to thecompany. Blancco came in and tested its solution with the company in
one of its California data centers in May 2017, performing miles above thecompetition. Overnight, the Blancco Data Center solution erased close to 900
servers, including a total of 5,117 6x1TB SATA HDD drives. The total time fromsetup to finish (report collection) was under ten hours. All erasures were done
simultaneously and remote-controlled over the network through one Blancco

Management Console. With this console, the data center could enter custom
field information to meet the company’s security requirements and launch
the erasure to all network connected servers at once. There was no need toconnect a keyboard and monitor to each server.
Preparing the erasure job took under three hours from start to finish and wascompleted using the Blancco Enterprise Appliance, a self-contained systemthat allows for easy setup and execution within the secure facility. There was noneed to go and touch each server; everything is remotely-controlled. Can you
imagine how long it would take to erase 900 servers one at a time? The latest
improvements in Blancco Data Center Eraser software allows a simultaneous
erasure of 1000+ servers or 6000+TB of data (based on average 6x1TB drive perserver) using a similar solution. Once the process is started, the same erasuresolution can be taken elsewhere to start another erasure, achieving evengreater erasure capacity.

About Blancco
As the de facto standard in data erasure, Blancco provides thousands oforganizations with an absolute line of defense against costly security breaches,
as well as verification of regulatory compliance through a 100% tamper-proof
audit trail. Our data erasure solutions have been tested, certified, approved andrecommended by 18 governing bodies around the world. No other security firm
can boast this level of compliance with the most rigorous requirements set bygovernment agencies, legal authorities and independent testing laboratories.
Contact your local representative today to get started.

For more information, please visit our website at www.blancco.com.