Blancco Ltd. is an international data security company that specializes in data erasure and computer reuse for corporations, governments
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Founded and headquartered in Joensuu
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, the company operates from offices across Europe, North America, Middle East, Asia, and Australasia. Blancco is a wholly owned subsidiary of Regenersis, a strategic outsourcing company to consumer technology companies.[“Regenersis purchase of Blancco exploits data privacy push,” Financial Times, (April 16, 2014)]
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Corporation
History
In 1997, Janne Tervo and Kim Väisänen co-founded Carelian Innovation Ltd. The company's first data erasure product, Blancco Data Cleaner, was released in 1999. Then, in 2000, Carelian Innovations Ltd. changed its name to Blancco Ltd.
Sun Microsystems and Blancco formed a partnership in 2007 to deliver data erasure. In 2007 when Blancco was approved and included in the NATO Information Assurance Product Catalogue (NIAPC). The company expanded its product line in 2008 with the introduction of the Blancco 4.5 client series for added server support, and the Data Center Edition, which enables safe reuse of the hard drives in mass storage environments for clients such as Sun
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, HP and EMC that need deep data expunging.["Deep Data Erasure from Blancco,” Ferris Research, (September 4, 2008)]
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The company released Blancco Mobile for smartphone erasure in 2012. In 2011, Blancco LUN was launched and in 2012 Blancco 5 and Management Console 3 were released. The company also acquired DBAN in 2012 and received Common Criteria certification in that same year.
Blancco was acquired by Regenersis in April 2014.["Regenersis To Acquire Blancco In EUR 60 Mln Deal - Quick Facts,” RTT News, (March 31, 2014)]
Leadership
:Kim Väisänen, Managing Director
:Daniel Smith, International Sales Director
:Mark Lambton, Financial Director
:Sami Tuupanen, Director of Products and Services
Board of directors
:Jog Dhody (CFO Regenersis), Chairman
:Kim Väisänen, Managing Director
Products
Blancco's data wipe products scale from a single, reusable PC erasure tool to software for erasure requirements in mass storage environments and data centers. The various versions support erasure of different hardware configurations.
Supported hardware erasure
See also
*Data erasure
Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of overwriting the data that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media ...
*Data remanence
Data remanence is the residual representation of digital data that remains even after attempts have been made to remove or erase the data. This residue may result from data being left intact by a nominal file deletion operation, by reformatting o ...
*Computer recycling
Computer recycling, electronic recycling or e-waste recycling is the disassembly and separation of components and raw materials of waste electronics. Although the procedures of re-use, donation and repair are not strictly recycling, these are oth ...
*Data destruction
Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of overwriting the data that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media ...
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