Customer Login
Using magnetic tape as the primary element of a backup and disaster recovery programme may sound old hat, what with Cloud storage and all, but it is still a current technology for many organisations.
You may have billions of bytes of data stored off site as your insurance policy against disaster or archived for compliance with your retention policy. And why not? Tapes of varying formats have huge capacity, are economical and, if stored professionally, offer unparalleled security and longevity.
If they’re so long-lived, why retire them?
If you use tape as a part of your data retention and protection policy you will, no doubt, have compliant retirement as the end game of that policy. This could come after a specific number of passes or be set up on a strict rotation basis to preserve data integrity – whatever suits your organisation’s needs and usage patterns.
If you’ve bothered to back up data, keep it safe on tapes off site, under the correct conditions, we’re certain that you will be keen to complete the correct procedures for full data protection compliance, which means total destruction at the end of your tapes’ lifecycle.
And the only way to guarantee that level of data erasure is through tape shredding, literally chopping the tape into tiny fragments, which makes all data irrefutably unrecoverable.
What to look for in a tape shredding service provider
Not all shredders are the same. Here are the qualities and hard facts that qualify a professional shredding company to shred your obsolete magnetic tapes.
- The business handles the range of tape formats in common use: DAT, DLT, RAID and LTO.
- Their accreditations cover the benchmarks in data security, business processes, shredding sizes, and service quality, as a minimum: ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 27001, and specialist memberships.
- Security is taken seriously, from DBS-checked colleagues to GPS-tracked vehicles, stiff destruction centre entry protocols, and 24-hour CCTV cameras. And there’s more. All tapes should enter an unbroken chain of custody from the moment of collection, to the moment they fall on to a shredding blade. Audited, provable, and rounded off with a certificate of destruction.
- A range of flexible services to suit, from on-site shredding for the highest level of convenience and security (watch your tapes tumble on to the blades!); off-site shredding; regular scheduled collections, and one-off backlog purges.
- Nationwide capability, offering large-scale capacity with local level knowledge and customer service.
Does Restore Datashred meet tape shredding requirements?
Not only do we meet the five criteria for tape shredding listed above in spades but we also place two further elements at the heart of all that we do.
–> Customer service – we design and build schedules and collections around your needs, and we work as a close-knit team for communications, transparency and efficiency.
–> The environment – our credentials include guaranteed recycling (we are a major recycling business), a commitment to sending nothing to landfill, and a Net Zero company policy that includes e-vehicles, tree planting and strong local and not-so-local community action.
Your takeaways…
Enhanced data security – our state-of-the-art shredders reduce your tapes to unrecognisable slivers in seconds = complete data erasure.
Increased operational efficiency – keep your tape turnover brisk, regulated and secure, reducing storage costs and time sensitivity concerns to a minimum.
Peace of mind – compliance with GDPR and your ESG commitments.
Speak to our team
Erase any qualms you may have about secure tape shredding. Give our approachable and knowledgeable customer service team a call on 0333 060 1785 to see how we shape up.
Contact usRecent News
