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When you're retiring or upgrading storage and servers, it's critical to protect the company information they contain. But simply erasing your used disks isn't enough to prevent passwords, financial records, employee data, and other confidential information from falling into the wrong hands.

HP Data Sanitization Service provides skilled resources and tools to help you address this important but often overlooked security risk. Using specialized software techniques, a certified HP Services storage specialist helps ensure that data cannot be reconstructed or retrieved from hard disk media in HP StorageWorks storage devices in Microsoft Windows, IBM AIX, Linux, and HP-UX environments. Our process is designed to help prevent even forensic instrumentation from accessing this often-sensitive data.

Retiring systems, returning leased equipment, upgrading hardware, redeploying storage devices - all require making your data permanently inaccessible. Data Sanitization Service relieves you of the responsibility of testing and implementing security standards and performing time-consuming drive sanitization procedures. You can focus on the critical priorities of your business, while HP Services works to reduce your security risks.

Your HP Services storage specialist works with your team to:

• Conduct a brief forum at your site to help you understand the procedures and validation techniques used in the sanitization process
• Remove all data, associated file system structures, and operating system formatting information from fixed rotational disk media
• Conduct data removal verification and acceptance testing

Staff reviews, data backup and validation processes, and data verification and testing procedures conducted throughout service delivery help ensure that your information always remains securely under your control.