Tier 1 Investment Bank: 12,000 Asset ITAD & Data Center Relocation
Documented Engagement • Verified Deployment
The Challenge
A major international bank required the decommissioning and consolidation of two London data centres within a 48-hour weekend outage window, alongside compliant sanitisation of 12,000 storage drives holding customer financial data.
Our Engineering Solution
Techsteps mobilized 24 SC-vetted engineers, deployed on-site DIN 66399 mobile granulators for failed drives, and executed Blancco-certified wiping on operational servers with live asset tracking.
Key Measurable Outcomes
100% on-time recommissioning with zero trading disruption on Monday morning
12,000 hard drives sanitized with individual cryptographic certificates matching FCA audit mandates
£280,000 generated in asset remarketing rebates returned to the client IT budget
42 tonnes of electronic waste diverted from landfill into licensed circular UK smelters