Case Study: Crédit Agricole Bretagne Onsite Data Erasure

CLIENT OVERVIEW

Crédit Agricole “The Green Bank” is the second largest bank in France with 39 independent regional banks across France and 9,500 branches globally. The operation is a large one and naturally their data centre estate is significant.

THE CHALLENGE

DataMove were approached to help facilitate a data hall upgrade and disposal as well as secure onsite data erasure prior to activities starting. Due to staff shortages and a tight timescale with their new data hall going live, these activities needed to take place between Christmas and New Year.

DEPLOYMENT

Project Managers Andy and Tony worked together to deploy a crew, planning to travel overnight from Portsmouth to Caen on Boxing Day Evening and arriving ready to work onsite on 28th December equipped with our mobile erasure rigs, shredder (as a backup) and a fully equipped team of three engineers. The plan was to finalise erasure before returning for New Years celebrations and continuing with disposal and migration in the first week of the new year.

The six racks of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform each containing hundreds of high capacity disks were erased using one of our three mobile Blancco rigs – designed from the ground up to be deployable within hours and able to erase hundreds of disks a day.

Being lightweight and flightcase based – we are able to express transport by Sprinter Van or even Airfreight these powerful server based rigs to our client sites globally.

With 24 hour access being issued to us by the client, our engineers were able to work in two shifts and have over 1,800 drives erased in just two days. Our rigs contain three powerful Dell servers communicating via PERC H800 cards and operating on their own temporary network, each capable of erasing hundreds of drives at a time. Any failed drives were pulled and marked and then securely erased and accounted for in our asset disposition reports. Blancco certificates are issued physically and digitally onsite.

OUTCOME

Our team were able to complete the clients data erasure requirements within the time threshold and at a tricky time of year.

The speed and accuracy of our project managers ability to fulfil the job is testament to the versatility of our engineering team and the flexibility of our modular onsite equipment that we have designed with the job – and the job only – in mind.

Our engineers even managed to stop by the Normandy beach memorial on their way back to the ferry port to pay their respects and reflect on the hardships others have suffered for our benefits.

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