Decommissioning:
Planning and managing the dismantling of data centers or hardware and systems, with consideration for:
- Site walk-through
- Risk assessment & method statement
- Audit and inventory, and action per device
- Device dependency management
- Controlled active device shutdown
- Safe power and cooling shutdown
- Removal, degaussing/destruction of sensitive storage
- Responsible recycling & sustainability
- Value recovery – hardware refurbish/resale
- Server decommissioning
