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The challenge: Technology refresh cycles create hidden risks.

Secure every asset. Capture every dollar.

Recover value from retired technology.

Iron Mountain remarkets retired devices and infrastructure through a global network of certified buyers. Agencies can offset refresh costs while maintaining strict chain-of-custody controls.

As the number one provider of IT asset disposition (ITAD) in North America, over 90% of the Fortune 1000 trust Iron Mountain to securely manage and retire their IT assets.

Why choose Iron Mountain?

Retired technology still carries sensitive data risk. Iron Mountain delivers secure ITAD and decommissioning services that permanently remove data while maintaining strict chain-of-custody documentation.

Certified destruction processes aligned with standards such as NIST 800-88 ensure devices are securely sanitized, responsibly recycled, and fully documented for audits and regulatory compliance.

Related services: IT asset remarketing | IT asset disposition (ITAD) | Hardware asset management

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Documented chain of custody for IT assets.

  • Deploy: Technology assets are delivered, installed, and recorded in lifecycle management systems.
  • Track: Asset data and location remain visible across departments, facilities, and refresh cycles.
  • Secure transport: Devices move through controlled logistics with documented chain of custody.
  • Data destruction: Certified processes permanently remove sensitive data according to recognized standards.
  • Disposition: Equipment is responsibly processed through recycling or secure asset disposition.
  • Remarketing: Usable technology is remarketed through certified buyers to recover remaining value.

Proven at government scale.

From deployment to secure disposition, Iron Mountain protects sensitive data and maximizes the value of public sector technology assets.

  • 100%
    guaranteed Teraware data erasure enables secure resale of IT assets
  • 80%
    of worldwide IT resellers are part of our global remarketing network
  • $1B+
    in remarketing value has been returned to our customers

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Frequently asked questions

How does Iron Mountain ensure IT asset disposition (ITAD) complies with the latest NIST 800-88 media sanitization standards for government agencies?

When public sector hardware, including servers, hard drives, laptops, and mobile devices, reaches the end of its useful life, data erasure cannot be left to chance. Under FISMA (MP-6) and upcoming CMMC 2.0 timelines, agencies require strict, unassailable proof of media sanitization.

Iron Mountain delivers a completely auditable, compliant data destruction process:

  • Adherence to NIST 00-88: We utilize advanced sanitization methods to clear, purge, and destroy data aligned with the newest federal standards to guarantee data is completely irrecoverable. Our proprietary Teraware platform can be deployed on-site or remotely to access and wipe drives at scale.
  • On-Site or Off-Site Destruction: For highly sensitive workloads, our mobile shredding units can shred drives directly at your facility, keeping data within your physical perimeter and under your eye witness. If moved offsite, assets travel in specialized vehicles with dual-custodian verification and real-time GPS tracking.
  • Automated Audit Trails: Every serialized asset receives a Certificate of Destruction and Sanitization, instantly ready for your next agency compliance audit.
How does Iron Mountain manage large-scale IT hardware deployments and data center decommissioning within high-security or classified public sector environments?

Decommissioning a government server room or consolidated cloud facility is far more complex than clearing out a commercial office. It requires working around sensitive architectures, classified environments, and specialized physical constraints.

Iron Mountain provides fully managed, secure logistics engineered for the public sector:

  • Cleared Field Personnel: Our decommissioning teams include background-checked and cleared specialists trained to work in restricted-access federal facilities.
  • Total Asset Lifecycle Management: We handle everything from the initial rack-and-stack deployment of new IT hardware to the meticulous logging, de-cabling, and removal of legacy infrastructure.
  • Serialized Asset Tracking: Every blade, server, and storage array is barcoded and tracked in real time, ensuring a flawless inventory reconciliation report from the moment it leaves the rack to its final disposition.
Can public sector agencies securely remarket or recover value from retired IT assets while complying with government surplus regulations?

Public sector agencies are highly motivated to stretch their technology budgets, but they cannot engage in standard commercial hardware flipping. Any value recovery or electronics remarketing must comply with strict government property disposal guidelines and data security mandates.

Iron Mountain securely optimizes your agency’s return on investment (ROI) through:

  • Secure-First Remarketing: We thoroughly sanitize all data paths using NIST-compliant processes before any device is evaluated for value recovery. Hardware may be remarketed as a whole device, or broken down to the component level to recapture value while physical drives are destroyed.
  • Compliant Processing: We channel eligible, refurbished IT assets through our massive network of raw material processors, auctions, and wholesale networks.
  • Budget Offsets: The value recovered from your retired hardware can be structured to directly offset the costs of your data sanitization, recycling, or new technology procurement, maximizing tax-payer dollar efficiency.
How do Iron Mountain’s Asset Lifecycle Management solutions help public sector agencies meet electronic stewardship and waste reduction directives?

We help your agency maintain a sustainable, circular IT lifecycle:

  • Certified E-Waste Recycling: Any hardware that cannot be refurbished or remarketed is processed through our e-Stewards® and R2v3-certified recycling facilities, ensuring zero-landfill e-waste compliance.
  • Environmental Impact Reporting: We don't just recycle; we provide the data to prove it. Agencies receive standardized Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Landfill Avoidance Certificates. This verifiable documentation allows your agency to easily report progress toward broader government-wide waste-reduction and resource-efficiency goals.