Guides for planning a data center exit
Practical explanations, written to be read before an RFP goes out rather than after a proposal arrives.
Scoping the work
- The sequence that keeps a project auditable, and where projects actually go wrong.
- What to settle internally before consulting any provider.
- What the building imposes on the schedule, regardless of rack count.
Data and assets
- Erasure, degaussing and destruction: what each actually guarantees.
- Where ITAD recovery value comes from, and how to read a settlement report.
- Resale or recycling: two timelines that do not align.
- Sorting equipment by risk rather than by type.
Programs and cost
- The six factors that explain why two proposals differ.
- Running a multi-site program without forcing one schedule on every building.
- Sequencing a migration so the exit does not outrun the arrival.
A question these pages do not answer?
Put it in the open field of the form — it travels with your project.
Data Center Exit is an independent project-intake and matching platform. It does not perform decommissioning, equipment removal, data destruction or transport.