Data centre decommissioning — we clear the racks and pay you
Maxicom handles the whole data-centre decommission across the UAE and the GCC: planned de-racking, certified data destruction on a documented chain of custody, and buyback of the hardware at current market value. Instead of paying a contractor to haul it away, the recovered value pays the project back.
- A fair market price, in AED
- Data wiped, certificate per drive
- Free collection, any quantity
- No obligation
Decommissioning that pays for itself
Most organisations treat a decommission as a cost line. But when the same partner that manages the de-racking, data destruction and reporting also buys the hardware, the recovered value offsets the project cost and usually turns it positive. You still get the controlled shutdown, the certified destruction and the audit trail — you just get a payment at the end instead of an invoice.
Single rooms to full-site exits, across the UAE and the GCC, with on-site or facility data destruction as your data classification requires.
What the project covers
Planning & asset audit
We start with an inventory and a disposition plan — every asset captured, tagged and assigned a destination before anything is touched, so the project runs to a documented scope.
Power-down & de-racking
Coordinated shut-down, de-cabling and de-racking, scheduled to your access and change windows, with the UPS, PDUs, cooling and racks handled alongside the IT.
Certified data destruction
On-site sanitisation for sensitive facilities or at our facility, to NIST 800-88 and IEEE 2883, with a certificate per asset; drives that can't be wiped are physically destroyed through a vetted partner.
Buyback that offsets the cost
Servers, storage, networking and components are bought at current market value, so the recovered value offsets the project cost and often turns a decommission into a net positive.
Recycling, zero landfill
Residual e-waste is recycled through licensed partners on a reuse-first basis, so nothing usable is shredded and nothing goes to landfill.
Chain-of-custody reporting
A documented chain of custody and disposition and destruction reports for every asset — the audit trail risk, security and sustainability teams need.
Getting rid of IT should pay you
A fair market price
A market-based offer in AED — paid promptly, with no disposal charges.
Your data, destroyed
Certified to NIST 800-88 and IEEE 2883, with a certificate for every drive.
Free collection
We pick up across the UAE and the GCC and handle the loading.
Fast & discreet
A quick written quote, prompt payment, and NDA as standard.
Data destroyed on-site or at our facility — your call
For sensitive estates, data can be destroyed on-site before anything leaves your building — software sanitisation performed in place, and partner-delivered physical shredding deployed to your location so top-classified media never leaves your custody intact. For standard estates, media is sanitised at our facility under a documented chain of custody. Either way you receive a certificate of destruction per asset, and your security team can witness the process. We recommend the approach per data classification; you decide.
The data-centre decommissioning process, step by step
A data-centre or server-room decommission runs in a fixed order, and getting the sequence right is what keeps it audit-clean. It starts with a planning and asset audit — a full inventory of every server, array, switch, UPS and PDU, each tagged and assigned a destination — followed by a documented power-down and de-cabling in a change window, then de-racking and removal on a tracked chain of custody. Data destruction is performed on-site or at our facility depending on classification, the recoverable hardware is valued and bought back, residual e-waste is recycled, and the job closes with disposition and destruction reporting.
The same process scales from a single server room to a full-site exit, and works whether you're consolidating, migrating to cloud or colocation, or closing a facility outright. Where a workload is still being migrated, the decommission runs in phases against your cut-over plan so nothing is powered down before it's ready — and because the hardware is bought rather than handed to a disposer, the recovered value offsets the project cost instead of adding to it.
How it works
Send your list
A spreadsheet, an inventory, or just photos.
Get a quote
A written offer in AED, no obligation.
We collect, free
Across the UAE & GCC, chain of custody.
You get paid
Data wiped, certificate issued, settled in AED.
Nothing moves until your data is destroyed
Data security is the reason most businesses hesitate to sell old IT — so we lead with it, and put it in writing.
Every drive sanitised to the recognised standard for its media type.
Documented chain of custody; witness or on-site destruction on request.
FAQ
What does a data-centre decommissioning involve?
What's the difference between a data-centre migration and a decommission?
Do you charge for a decommission, or pay for it?
Can data be destroyed on-site before equipment leaves?
Do you handle the physical de-racking and logistics?
What do you buy back from a data centre?
What reporting do we get for audit and ESG?
Can you decommission a live migration in phases?
Clear the hall. Keep the audit trail. Get paid.
Send your rack list — asset register or room inventory — for a written AED buyback offer and a decommission plan.
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