VAR Solutions is a UK based multi-vendor IT brokerage specialising in supplying systems and parts into the brokerage marketplace and IT maintenance organisations all over the world.
With expertise in IBM, HP and Cisco midrange server, storage and networking products we are experts in procuring hard to source and manufacture end of distribution systems and parts.
A significant part of our business is purchasing redundant or surplus IT assets from organisations world wide that we either refurbish in house and then remarket, or, we test and then break down to their component parts to help fulfil our maintenance clients contracts.
As part of this service we can offer data deletion, or destruction, and asset tracking from the moment it leaves your site to its arrival at our engineering and remarketing facility in Grove, Oxfordshire.
If your IT budget is constrained or you have surplus IT stock then the service we offer to purchase these assets can be used to bolster your future IT purchases, alternatively, you could leverage the value of your redundant or surplus equipment against purchases of new or refurbished equipment through us.
Secure Data Removal
Data wiping is a term used by many companies, but how confident are you that this is actually done to a high enough standard that guarantees the data cannot be recovered?
As an organisation you are responsible for ensuring that the data can not be retrieved, so you need to be confident that any disks, storage cards or memory are completely clear of data. Here at VAR we are partnered with companies that specialise in the total deletion of data either at your site or at their own secure locations around the country. Your equipment is asset tracked from the moment it leaves your offices so you can have a report of exactly where it is. If destruction of disks, memory or tapes is the service you are after we can supply you with mobile shredders that will physically destroy anything that is capable of holding data. You will then receive certificates for your own records proving their destruction.
We are able to provide data deletion through our partners using either their own fully certified data security product or by using Blancco. There is a charge per unit for all 3 data deletion/destruction options, but in most cases this charge is offset against the value of the disk or system through resale once the process has been completed. Obviously if you decide that data deletion is the preferred option you will regain more capital should those units be remarketable.
Data Deletion.
This is done off site at a secure location. All devices that are capable of holding data are audited on your site and then taken via non liveried, traceable transport to the data deletion facility. Once there the devices are held in a secure location where access is restricted to only authorised personnel. Once the data has been deleted certificates of proof are issued back to you and kept on file with us here at VAR.
Physical Data Destruction.
A disk shredder is taken to your location and an audit completed of all devices that are capable of holding data. This can be in the form of hard disks, memory cards, RAID or other cards that hold cache memory, tapes, CDs and USB keys. These are then crushed and shredded while you watch.
Online Data Deletion.
Online data removal is completed using our partners proprietary data deletion software. As with the offsite product the data deletion meets the requirements that have been set out by the US Department for Defence (DoD) 5022-M and the standards published by the CESG and GCHQ here in the UK.
Level 1 – Drive nullification followed by a data overwrite with zeros
Level 3 – Drive nullification followed by three data overwrites
Level 7 – Drive nullification followed by two three-pass processes, ending with the final pass of
random characters
Using their proprietary software our security partner is able to verify 100% reliable, accountable, data destruction.
Please call us on 01235 762 296 and speak to Martin if you would like more information on how we can meet your data deletion needs.
