On-Site Disk Data Eradication Service 
Developing a sound data protection strategy is one of the more complex tasks faced by today’s IT organizations. Historically, company concerns have centered only on access (i.e., authentication and authorization), backup and recovery or business continuity.
Today, an increasing number of regulatory requirements that govern the protection of personal information (e.g., health records, financial statements, credit/debit card information, social security numbers, etc.) are causing companies to continually reexamine how they protect information from getting out of their control. 
One area that has been overlooked by a number of companies is the security of data stored on magnetic disk. Many may not consider this to be an issue because they don’t think in terms of disk-based data leaving the premises. However, consider the rapid turnover of technology as leases expire. Add to that the regularity of hard disk failures within disk arrays (an admittedly “quiet” occurrence because of RAID data protection) and disk data “departures” become an almost daily event.
Companies sensitive to the problem of data remaining on an individual HDD or a disk subsystem when it leaves the physical security of a data center are faced with the dilemma of how to properly eradicate data in the most cost-effective manner.
PeakData’s Disk Data Eradication Service provides complete eradication of data from hard disk drives, protecting a company’s hard-earned reputation and trustworthiness by preventing confidential information from falling into the wrong hands. PeakData’s software-based technology ensures secure eradication and provides the detailed reporting required to meet today’s state and local government and industry regulatory compliance requirements, customer and employee privacy legislation, and security mandates. As a result customers are insulated from exposure to legal liabilities or loss of corporate assets. Key benefits include:
- On-site service delivery with no impact to production operations; or, off-site at one of PeakData’s secure, state-of-the-art facilities
- Eradication of data using overwriting to a predefined standard, from 1 to n passes, in every bit position and on every track in varying patterns
- All hard disk drive types are supported: mainframe or open systems; RAID or JBOD; enterprise, midrange, or desktop; fibre channel, SCSI, SAS, SATA, ATA/IDE
- Fully configurable to meet any applicable standard, including the U.S. Department of Defense Sanitizing Standard (DOD 5220.22-M, DOD 5220.22-M ECE) and the Department of Energy Clearing, Sanitization and Destruction Standard (M 205.1-2)