The days when data centers were rooms full of racked servers are gone. Today’s data centers are clouds. The difference: operational processes and the software that supports them. In the past, data center operators managed servers and racks one at a time. Today, the...

It’s much more difficult to successfully build and grow something like a business or a career, than to destroy it. Destruction usually carries with it a negative connotation. Except when it comes to destroying, or more accurately, eradicating, obsolete data that can...

See the drives in the picture? They just sit there. Over time they get old, and with use they eventually reach end of life – or perhaps it’s eventually time to return them as part of a lease. Either way, it’s time to sanitize them – a term that means either erasing or...

Definitively eliminating unnecessary, unneeded and unwanted data from an enterprise that generates more data exhaust every day is a much harder slog than it seems. In this series, we’ve discussed how to overcome the operational challenges of data eradication,...