RMS Saves Businesses Major Costs through Hard Drive Destruction

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Nov. 17, 2014 - PRLog -- Record Management Solutions (RMS) provides several services to help manage and dispose of sensitive materials that should not be in the wrong hands. One such service is hard drive destruction. Through this service, old hard drives that potentially contain sensitive information are destroyed, and that can also include computer tape, DVD’s, flash drives, and more. Through this service, RMS helps entities in several industries save major costs.

In 2013, over 2100 data breaches resulted in over 822 million records exposed. In the United States, companies lost an average of about 28,000 records with each one costing about $188, or over $5 million per company. Through RMS’s hard drive destruction services, the possibility of a data breach of such a magnitude is reduced or completely eliminated. Aside from the monetary expense that is saved through hard drive destruction, RMS can also help businesses save in unneeded storage uses as electronic materials are recycled, save in unnecessary labor costs for the purpose of sorting and moving the equipment, and remain in compliance with laws like HIPAA and FACTA.

RMS covers a wide geographic range with its hard drive destruction services. From its headquarters in Martinsburg, WV, RMS reaches metropolitan areas like Washington, DC, and Baltimore, as well as municipalities like Hagerstown and Winchester. For large-scale hard drive destruction, RMS can travel as far as Pittsburgh and Charlotte, North Carolina.

About Records Management Solutions, Inc.:

RMS specializes in information protection and can properly dispose of all confidential information that a company has no matter what format. RMS offers document shredding and hard drive destruction, as well as document imaging and conversion to capture all information in one format prior to destruction. The company is based in Martinsburg, WV, and services a wide range in the Northeast, including many cities in West Virginia, northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Hard drive destruction is also now available in Philadelphia and New York.