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GMT</pubDate><category>Service Update</category><category>website</category><category>pricing</category><category>intake</category><category>service</category><author>Helixrack</author></item><item><title>Planning Server Decommissioning and Media Sanitization</title><link>https://helixrack.com/blog/decommissioning-without-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://helixrack.com/blog/decommissioning-without-data/</guid><description>How to plan migration, rollback, media sanitization, verification, custody, and hardware disposition as separate customer-approved steps.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Field Notes</category><category>media sanitization</category><category>server migration</category><category>NIST guidance</category><category>reuse</category><author>Helixrack</author></item><item><title>How We Review Dense-Compute Systems</title><link>https://helixrack.com/blog/how-we-review-dense-compute-systems/</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate><category>Infrastructure</category><category>capacity</category><category>power</category><category>cooling</category><category>operations</category><author>Helixrack</author></item><item><title>Two Years of Operating Customer Hardware</title><link>https://helixrack.com/blog/two-years-operating/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://helixrack.com/blog/two-years-operating/</guid><description>What two completed years of operating customer-owned hardware clarified about intake, capacity review, responsibility, and change control.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Company</category><category>annual milestone</category><category>operations</category><category>customer-owned hardware</category><category>capacity</category><author>Helixrack</author></item><item><title>3,200 Square Feet: Capacity, Support, and Metered Pricing</title><link>https://helixrack.com/blog/capacity-support-metered-pricing/</link><guid 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