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DiskShred returning in excess of £ 230,000 to clients in next 12 months
DiskShred has announced the launch of a new service to help companies recover the value of their retired IT equipment . The company expects to return in excess of £ 229,000 to clients in the next 12 months .
DiskShred specialises in providing secure on-site shredding services to the most security conscious companies , including financial services , data centres and public bodies . While DiskShred previously focused solely on providing on-site data destruction services , the launch of the new service is a direct response to customer demand .
Jeremy Bryan , brand manager , DiskShred , said , ‘ We approached a number of our customers to discuss their other equipment disposal requirements as well as hard drive shredding . Our clients have responded well to the opportunity to recover the value of their old IT assets . We have been able to help them to get cash back from their end-of-life assets , which often enables them to avail of our data destruction and shredding services free of charge .’
Used IT equipment can retain a considerable amount of its value , and this is often true for used equipment from data centres . Even without hard drives , servers and their parts can have value which DiskShred can help its customers to recover .
To establish where value can be returned , DiskShred ’ s knowledgeable team can conduct an audit of clients ’ facilities and advise on equipment where residual value is recoverable . Where there is value , IT assets are transported to DiskShred ’ s secure facility in the provider ’ s purposebuilt vehicles . DiskShred then assesses the equipment ’ s market value to find the channel that will capture the highest possible return , with the value passed back to customers .
Jeremy Bryan said . ‘ The addition of this new service to our portfolio will make it even easier for companies to avail of DiskShred ’ s services and guarantee the lowest risk of a data breach . We provide a return on equipment that can be put towards shredding data bearing equipment .’ For further information visit : www . diskshred . eu
Scale Computing Announces Hyperconverged Appliances Designed for Storage Hungry Data Centres
Scale Computing has announced the availability of two new hyperconverged appliances - the HC1150DF and HC5150D - for organisations of all sizes that want to maximise storage speed and capacity . Driven by strong customer demand , the new appliances that combine storage , virtualisation and servers capabilities offer the performance and capacity needed by large enterprise environments for a simple and agile IT infrastructure that helps them focus on the business and not the underlying infrastructure .
The new HC1150DF and HC5150D expand Scale ’ s existing HC3 product portfolio of products , now offering significant increases in flash storage and overall storage capacity to broaden hyperconverged customer choices . The HC1150DF provides all-flash storage , while the HC5150D provides raw hybrid flash storage per cluster that retains the simplicity and ease of use that are now synonymous with the HC3 family .
Traditional and complex IT infrastructures make it difficult to scale out storage as businesses require more capacity . In response , many IT professionals in SMB and enterprise organisations are turning to the agility of hyperconverged platforms to quickly and easily scale to demand , enabling them to focus more on business needs and less on underlying IT infrastructures .
‘ Scale Computing is continuing to expand its product offerings based on customer feedback to support tomorrow ’ s storage and compute needs ,’ said Jeff Ready , CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing . ‘ The HC5150D and HC1150DF are new powerful options for running HC3 with greater storage capacity and speed while running a single appliance , adding resources to an existing HC3 cluster or adding a single appliance for backup / DR . Whether customers are storing large image files or an abundance of really small files , the HC5150D provides the capacity they need in a hyperconverged system .’ For further information visit : www . scalecomputing . com
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