Trust SLS for environmentally compliant and secure electronics reuse and recycling. We provide cost effective and responsible services for disposing of retired IT assets.
All subcontractors and downstream vendors are fully audited to ensure a fully accountable chain-of-custody for our corporate customers.
Sims Lifecycle Services – West Chicago, Illinois
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For companies who require all digital data to be destroyed before computer equipment leaves your facility. We come to your location. At your convenience. Meets local, national and global data security standards. Certificates of data destruction provided. -
Data Center Services for Cloud Providers
Our capacity, advanced recycling, and resourceful resell capabilities have made us a preferred vendor for the largest cloud providers. We work in the largest data centers removing and reselling retired racks of servers and blades, systematically destroying hard drives and storage area networks. The financial return we offer, along with audit trails and quick turnaround of assets make us the preferred service provider for several cloud computing providers.
Decommissioning Modular Data Centers
Modular data centers are increasing in popularity as the demand for edge computing increases.
When these small data centers have outlived their useful life, SLS can play an important role in quickly and efficiently decommissioning them.
SLS is a business of Sims Metal Management (SMM), a leading global metal recycling company. Working together, we provide the agility and expertise needed to remove IT assets, servers, cabling, electrical and mechanical equipment when decommissioning these satellite data centers. SLS provides data destruction, resale and recycling of all IT equipment. SMM is fully equipped to support the heavy lifting, handling, transport and recycling of data center mechanical and electrical systems.
The list below shows major data center equipment that can be retired through SLS and SMM. Like SLS, SMM has operations globally.
IT Equipment Processed by SLS - Mainframes
- Servers
- Routers and switches
- Telecommunication equipment
- Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)
- Batteries
- Cabling
- Monitoring equipment
Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Processed by SMM - HVAC equipment
- Diesel generators
- Air Handlers
- Containers
- Server racks
All SLS facilities provide:
- Corporate data center decommissioning
- Cage cleanout at co-located data centers
- Routine rack removal and hard drive destruction for mega data centers
- Data destruction services including SAN removal, hard drive destruction and erasure. We also destroy data on backup tapes and flash media. Certificates of Data Destruction provided for all services. Data destruction services adhere to NIST 800-88 r1 guidelines.
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SLS offers a coordinated e-waste recycling and ITAD single solution with a high focus on data security, regulatory and corporate compliance, value recovery and sustainability. We offer a solution for companies who operate globally to build a secure standardized program to manage compliant disposition of retired IT assets and e-waste.