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Project Summary: 7 NetApp servers, 7 C3000 enclosures, 14 BL460c blades; packed, transported, recycled, full audit report issued.
A manufacturing client in Lille retired legacy gear comprising seven NetApp arrays, seven HP C3000 enclosures, and fourteen BL460c blades. After controlled power-down, technicians dismounted fibre trunks and labelled them for any future re-use. Hardware was cushioned in antistatic foam, loaded into shock-sensor crates, and forwarded to an R2v3 facility for processing. Disk media followed a NIST 800-88 purge path; chassis were dismantled for component harvesting and material recycling. A bilingual audit report—serial ledger, wipe confirmation, and mass-balance figures—was issued within 48 hours for ISO 14001 filing.
Project Summary: Tokyo, Japan- Project Summary: Captured make + model on 1,200 assets, packed, & shipped via bonded freight in four days.
Our Tokyo crew executed a floor-clear directive covering 1,200 mixed-vendor assets. Each chassis was RFID-scanned at the rack face to capture make, model, and serial; data fed directly into a CSV ledger for the client’s CMDB. After PSU discharge, technicians fitted antistatic caps, detached cable looms, and mounted hardware in CNC-cut EPE foam inserts inside ATA-rated crates. A bar-coded seal on every crate tied physical inventory to the custody log. Export documentation—commercial invoice, HS codes, and ECCN statements—was generated concurrently and attached to the bonded-freight booking. All freight pallets cleared the dock on Day 4, equipped with GPS beacons transmitting every 15 minutes until arrival at the regional consolidation hub. No deviation alarms triggered, and the landlord acknowledged a clean hand-off upon tile inspection.
Project Summary: De‑racked 505 servers, switches, PDUs; removed cabling & disposed per Ontario e‑waste law.
In Toronto, Destroy Drive was tasked with retiring 505 servers, switches, and PDUs under Ontario’s e-waste regulations. Assets were de-racked using torque-limited drivers, then sorted on site into R2v3 downstream streams—ferrous, non-ferrous, plastics, and circuit boards—per the province’s Electronic Stewardship guidelines. Copper and fibre cabling were colour-tagged, removed, and baled for metals recovery. Resale-grade units entered a Blancco overwrite queue; end-of-life devices were palletised for certified recycling, all tracked via Environment Ontario weight tickets. A single PDF package containing serial ledgers, wipe reports, and diversion manifests was delivered to the facilities team for compliance archiving.
Project Summary: 42 rack servers & blade chassis safely extracted; site swept for hand‑off in 24 hrs.
With a lease termination looming, an Illinois DR site needed 42 rack servers and blade chassis removed inside a single calendar day. Teams worked in parallel aisles, scanning serials to a live dashboard before loosening rails with calibrated torque drivers. Lift carts kept equipment within ergonomic limits, and antistatic bags prevented ESD during transit to the loading bay. After racks were emptied, floor tiles were vacuumed and wiped to the landlord’s turnover checklist. A time-stamped photo set documented each cleared row, enabling immediate space sign-off.
Project Summary: Selective switch relocation; traced & documented fibre/CAT cabling; moved 6 heavy SunFire V1280 units (≈270 lb each) to new cage.
At a Singapore carrier hotel, selective switch relocation required moving six SunFire V1280 units (≈ 270 lb each) to a new cage while live traffic continued. Technicians first traced and documented all active fibre and CAT6 circuits, producing a colour-coded pathway map for the NOC. Hydraulic lifts and anti-tilt dollies navigated narrow aisles without breaching containment curtains. Torque-spec reconnection, LLDP discovery, and latency pings verified link integrity before traffic swung over. Move and validation closed within the six-hour maintenance window.
Project Summary: 4,000 + assets identified, audited, scanned; packed, shipped, wiped, shredded; asset‑buyback credit issued.
A fintech consolidating its Mumbai footprint needed a clean exit for 4,000 + assets dispersed across three floors. RFID scanners captured make-model-serial data, instantly flagging mismatches against the client’s fixed-asset register. Resale-eligible devices moved to an overwrite lane; obsolete units were isolated for DIN 66399 H-5 shredding via mobile mill. QR-coded destruction and resale certificates automatically populated a shared compliance portal. Through our buy-back channel, credit for reusable hardware was applied to the client’s upcoming endpoint refresh, turning what was budgeted as a disposal cost into a net-positive line item.
