Global concern recovers value from languishing media
A global, diversified company that has grown rapidly over the years, both organically and through acquisition encountered IT challenges integrating and consolidating new entities. The challenges were particularly daunting considering that one of their core business principles is operating excellence and deployment of leading edge information technology as a means to that end.
They found that the rapid adoption of new storage technologies delivering performance and cost benefits has worked to their advantage in gaining a competitive edge. Inevitably, though, it also leads to accelerated decommissioning of still-useful technology.
In one recent tape technology transition PeakData worked to mitigate the cost of that disposal thereby improving the ROI of the firm’s technology upgrade.
Specifically, they had more than 1,000 9940 tapes (many that required eradication of sensitive data). Some of these tapes were new, labeled and initialized. Others, merely new. Sorting through this maze and valuing all the tapes while securely repurposing the used ones, ended up returning tens of thousands of dollars to the company’s IT budget.
And while they did get a substantial amount of money back, through the DoD compliant (5220.2-M) eradication process they got something of even greater value – peace of mind.