ITRenew Teraware Validated by ADISA Claims Test

ITRenew, Inc., in IT asset disposition (ITAD), data security and data center decommissioning services, announced that its Teraware data erasure platform has again passed the ADISA Claims Test process.

Teraware by the numbers

Teraware is a software to have passed Test Level 2 of the ADISA Threat Matrix for the sanitization of both SSDs and HDD drives beyond forensic recovery. With 17 active ADISA Claims Tests in total, Teraware holds more certificates than all other products combined.

“This latest round of ADISA testing revalidates Teraware’s position as the de facto solution for enterprise-grade data sanitization,” said Aidin Aghamiri, VP of corporate strategy, ITRenew. “Teraware has passed the most stringent, forensic-level testing on the latest and greatest storage technology that is prevalent within data centers and throughout the IT enterprise of Fortune 500 businesses. We feel the results speak for themselves.“

In October 2014, ITRenew’s Teraware became a software certified by the ADISA claims test to erase SSDs at a forensic level. The latest ADISA testing, which was carried out by Professor Andrew Blyth, head of information security at the University of South Wales, validates Teraware’s ability to overwrite both SDD and HDD data to protect from forensic attack equivalent to Test Level 2 of the ADISA Threat Matrix.

“The ADISA Claims Test enables those companies who provide data sanitization tools to have third-party validation that the claims they make are true,” said Steve Mellings, ADISA CEO. “ITRenew has submitted a larger sample size to the testing process than any other organization.“

Teraware’s ADISA certificates cover sanitizing all HDDs found in a data center. This includes SSDs and HDDs with every type of drive interface including SATA, SAS, FC and NVMe. In addition, they cover a range of storage technology including NAND and PCI-based flash storage, shingled magnetic recording (SMR), high-capacity, 4k advanced sector format and helium filled.

According to Matt Mickelson, ITRenew director of product management, Teraware’s testing diversity provides corporations with the greatest assurance of data erasure compatibility.

“You don’t see high-capacity and helium drives on certification lists for good reason – because they’re far more challenging to erase, particularly at a forensic level,” said Mickelson. “But this is the technology mix our customers have in-production at their data centers, so we wouldn’t be serving their best interests if we were to limit our product testing range. Plus, we’re always up for a good challenge.“

To help data center management and companies evaluating ITAD service providers understand the importance of independent third-party certification, Mickelson authored the blog Data Erasure Certification: Don’t Take My Word for It. The blog provides insight into ADISA’s testing process and details the Teraware test products.

ITRenew demonstrated Teraware data erasure software capabilities at the IAITAM ACE Conference, May 2-4 in Las Vegas, NV.