About Data Center Exit
Who publishes this site, what it helps you do, where your request goes, and how to verify the certifications of whoever performs each stage.
What this site helps you do
A decommission inventories the estate against your asset register, de-cables, removes racks, sanitizes every storage device by erasure or destruction, sorts assets for resale or recycling, and hands over a certificate pack reconciled serial number by serial number. The pack is the deliverable; everything before it is logistics. Data Center Exit is published by Digitori LLC. It explains each of those stages in the terms an auditor will use, helps you write the scope a provider has to answer, and, with your agreement, passes that scoped request to a qualified decommissioning and ITAD provider covering your sites, who performs the work under its own contract and certifications.
The decision nobody else should make for you
Nobody outside your organisation decides which assets are destroyed and which are erased. That is a data classification decision, it belongs to the data owner, and delegating it to whoever profits from the answer is the single mistake worth avoiding in this field. A good provider tells you which model your estate supports and then executes the policy you set.
Checking the provider and the chain of custody
Before you sign, ask the provider to name every facility and every subcontracted stage. Every handover is a point in the chain of custody, and a buyer is entitled to know how many there are before signing rather than after an audit.
How this site is paid
Submitting a project costs you nothing. The site is paid by the provider that receives a scoped request, never by a share of your resale proceeds. Where resale proceeds are involved, ask the provider which commercial model applies, because a vendor funded by resale has a reason to prefer erasure over destruction, and that reason must never decide your destruction policy.
Scope your project
Send the site, the footprint and the data requirements. You get a call back to sharpen the scope, then, with your OK, one qualified provider covering your sites follows up with a quote.
After you send it: a call back, dialed by hand, to go through the scope with you. With your agreement, the scoped request then goes to a qualified provider covering your area.