If your organisation is going through a hardware refresh, or you are merging two sites or closing one down, you will know that there is always equipment left over at the end of it. Servers, storage systems, network switches, and in some cases the contents of an entire hall. We can take that equipment off your hands, and you will only ever be dealing with one company no matter what happens to it afterwards. In some cases we will buy the machines from you and lease them straight back. In other cases we will simply buy them. And where there are units that nobody is going to want to buy any more, we will dispose of them in the proper way and give you the documents that prove it was done.
We will buy the equipment you are already using and then lease it back to you, and in most cases the whole thing is completed within the same month. Your servers stay exactly where they are and keep running as before. The only thing that actually moves is the money, which goes into your account.
This option is for your surplus equipment, equipment you have retired, or equipment that is coming off a lease you do not want to extend. We will give you a price for each unit based on the model and the configuration, and then we will come and collect everything from your site.
Not every piece of equipment will have a buyer. Whatever is left over will be wiped, dismantled and recycled, and you will receive proper documentation for all of it, the kind of documentation that your auditors will accept.
We keep track of every unit from the moment it is taken out of your rack until it has either been sold on to a new owner or has been through the shredder. When the project is finished you will receive one report that covers all of the equipment, rather than a number of separate reports.
You can send us an export of your equipment list by serial number from your CMDB, or if you prefer our team can come to your site and scan all of the equipment.
We will then send you a price for each unit. The offer will show you which units are going to be resold, which are going to be leased back to you and which are going to be recycled.
Our engineers will remove the units from the racks, label them and pack them for transport. The transport is sealed before it leaves your building.
All of the drives are wiped. Where a drive cannot be wiped it is physically destroyed instead, and in both cases you receive a certificate for each serial number.
When the equipment arrives at our warehouse it is put through burn-in testing, the firmware is updated and each unit is given a cosmetic grade. Any components that are worth keeping are removed.
Each unit is then either sold, leased out again or recycled. Once the last unit has been dealt with we send you the final report.
The equipment that we lease and rent out to our customers is mostly the same tested used equipment that we buy in. This means that a three year old server is stock that we can put to work again the following month, rather than scrap that we have to get rid of. That is the reason we are able to pay you more for it than a broker or a recycling company would.
The resale, the leaseback and the recycling are all included in one offer. What this means for you is that decommissioning a hall becomes one tender with one company, instead of three separate tenders with three separate companies and three sets of lawyers.
Your security department will receive the data destruction certificates it needs, and your finance department will receive a disposition report listing every serial number. Both documents come from us and both arrive together in the same pack.
Our engineers are removing equipment from live data centres almost every week of the year. They know how to work around the racks that you are keeping, and nothing goes down while they are working.
All of the equipment listed here has been tested and graded and is ready to be leased, rented or sold. The list changes from one week to the next, so please ask us for the current version.