SRS Using Blancco Service to Provide Extra Data Security

Blancco announces that Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS) will be embedding Blancco’s data erasure software into its cleaning process to ensure the assets that it processes are data safe before they are recycled or refurbished.

Last year, SRS processed more than 660 million pounds of electronics from its 37 sites around the world. Additionally, SRS refurbished an estimated 1.5 million assets. To protect the assets and help customers simplify the management of these assets and mitigate business risks associated with electronic asset recycling, Sims Recycling Solutions created WebView, an online system from Blancco. 

WebView provides customers with real-time information about recovered IT assets throughout each stage of the asset recovery process. An element in the WebView system is Blancco data erasure software, which provides disk wiping, harvesting of software licenses and auditable reports of disk erasure status.

“WebView is a business-critical system for Sims Recycling Solutions that controls our facilities, logistics and the secure reuse of IT assets for our clients,” says Jon Godfrey, product director for Sims’ Lifecycle Services proposition. “Blancco software is integral to WebView’s functionality in that it tells us whether each asset is data safe and also captures a variety of information about those assets, without manual intervention and potential human error.”

Sims is currently standardizing all data erasure on Blancco software. The two companies have agreed on long-term cooperation and continued joint effort on data safe IT assets for recycling and refurbishing.