by Blake Allen | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
by Blake Allen | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
by Blake Allen | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
by Blake Allen | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
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,...
