Patent ID: 8832459

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying, by a processor, a first process to be terminated from a plurality of computing systems; identifying a first computing system in the plurality of computing systems, the first computing system supporting the first process; identifying other processes supported by the first computing system sharing information associated with and supporting the first process, wherein the other processes are not to be terminated; identifying specific locations in a computer readable storage device storing the shared information on the first computing system; migrating the other process to a second computing system of the plurality of computing systems; instructing, by the processor, a network management system to provide a command to retrieve an eraser agent to the first computing system; receiving, by the processor, the command from the first computing system to provide the first computing system with the eraser agent; and transmitting after migrating, by the processor, the eraser agent to the first computing system to securely terminate the first process and erase the shared information associated with the first process and stored in the specific locations on the first computing system.