Author Archives: Satya Iyer

In the same way that it drives you crazy sitting at home waiting for someone from the cable company to show up, it can be exasperating waiting for your company’s IT asset disposition (ITAD) vendor to provide the services you requested. Let’s extend our cable guy analogy a bit further. When you’re sitting at home …

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One of the more frequent questions we hear from the companies we work with is if we have any advice about donating laptops and other used IT equipment to charity. With school budgets declining and many non-profit organizations just scraping by, computer donation is becoming an increasingly popular way for the corporate world to give …

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The clock is ticking. When you think about it, it seems obvious, but it’s a fact that’s often overlooked by busy IT asset managers and data center managers: The longer you wait to resell a retired IT asset, the less valuable it will be. This should be an important consideration for organizations that are trying …

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For data center managers, particularly those who are taking on a new role or location, finding a stash (or several of them scattered around the facility) of decommissioned equipment is an unwelcome challenge.   A data center refresh or migration project may have been successful, but it’s not really complete until all the retired assets are …

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When you became an IT manager no one told you you had to be an expert in electronics recycling and remanufacturing. But here you are trying to choose among vendors for those services and you have no idea how to tell them apart. Should you just choose the cheapest? The short answer is no. While …

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If only IT asset disposition was as easy as taking out the trash in your office. Imagine a world where you could simply leave your company’s retired IT equipment at your desk or in the corner of your data center, leave it overnight, and in the morning, arrive at work to find the material—desktop computers, …

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With increased media, shareholder and customer attention on data breaches and environmental impacts from corporations of all types, IT asset retirement is becoming a key corporate service.  Many companies are looking to create corporate-wide standards and manage the process and costs for the disposal process.  One of the challenges is making sure you have covered …

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The technology refresh process may be quite extensive—requiring many steps and team members possibly spread out over a geographical region that could include the whole country or even the whole world.  The retirement and disposal of the used assets —is often most effectively accomplished with an enterprise-wide program developed with an ITAD expert. Anytime a …

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While solid state drives (SSDs) have been around in one form or another almost as long as their magnetic counterparts, it is only in recent years that their use has been adopted wholesale by the business enterprise. As a replacement for the magnetic drives used in usually in laptops and storage systems, the capacity and …

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