Data Center Decommissioning has become a priority topic for organizations worldwide, especially in the last seven years since many companies have shifted from their own physical data center locations to a hybrid and/or solely...
Just 30 miles north of the nation’s capitol near Dulles International Airport is Ashburn, Virginia, where ultra-secure telecommunications and giant data centers support some of the most important entities in the world. ...
California has more data centers than any state in the country, with more than 230 colocation facilities spread across 30 different cities. Los Angeles was an early entrant in the data center market and now boasts more than...
San Francisco is a key connectivity hub for the Silicon Valley and supports a $535 billion economy. It’s one of the largest colocation markets in the U.S., connecting to telecommunications networks and backbones around the...
Wherever there is business, you will find data centers, but maintaining a data center in Florida presents some additional challenges. While real estate costs can be low (compared to some major population centers), the...
Chicago is the third largest city in the U.S., which explains why it’s a major hub for data centers in Illinois that service companies nationwide. According to “Data Center Map,” all but five of the state’s nearly 90...
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the number of data centers spread across the state. In the four largest cities alone there are at least 160 colocation data centers serving customers from across the nation. All...
When you mention a place like New York City, people typically think of Wall Street, the Skyline, Broadway, the New York Stock Exchange and views of the Statue of Liberty. New York City is an incredible place with constant...
OceanTech wrapped up 2017 with a visit to San Jose, CA and into Silicon Valley for a decommissioning assignment. Equinix Great Oaks campus was the site for this project. This time we were in Equinix's SV5 data center which serves a large concentration of high-tech...
Walking into a modern office, you might notice that at the employees’ desks you’ll only find a keyboard, mouse, and a monitor. There’s no docking station – no telephone – no desktop PC. When I first heard of an office that looked like this, I figured the technology...
Walk into a modern office and at the desks of the employee you may find just a keyboard and monitor. No docking stations for a laptop or notebook computer. No telephone. No desktop PC. When I first heard of an office...
The Chain of Custody is an extremely important document in the Data Destruction process. During the retirement of your office electronics, gone are the days when you could just turn everything over to the company that was hired to remove them and trust it is all taken...