Getting the most ROI for your IT investment means being able to get the most value out of your retired assets on the resale market. Not every retired piece of IT equipment can be resold, but when they can be, there are certain strategies your business can follow to get as much as possible from …
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Having your own people handle something as risky as data erasure sounds like the best way to ensure peace of mind. After all, the members of your IT staff were hand selected by your company for their expertise and reliability, and many of them have served your company at an extremely high level of competence …
The process of disposing of retired IT assets is fraught with risk. One of the most risky elements of IT asset disposal is compliance with state and federal environmental regulations. On top of regulatory obligations for environmental compliance is the public relations disaster that could occur if your company’s assets were discovered moldering in a …
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First you must identify the drive. The bios in a laptop or array does not recognize an SSD. On the outside, they look exactly like a magnetic drive. New erasure software can read the firmware codes on the drives themselves, and identify solid state devices during the disk detection phase of running data erasure software. …
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What does it mean for an IT asset to be off-network? Simply defined, an off-network IT asset is a piece of IT equipment owned by an organization but disconnected from its network—once you have retired or decommissioned a computer or laptop, for example, but have not yet formally disposed of it. Off-network assets are important …
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IT asset recovery—recovering some of the investment a company has put into its IT assets by reselling them after they have been retired—is vitally important to companies trying to get the most out of their IT dollars. Many assets are still quite usable when they reach the end of their service to a particular organization. …
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The workdays around a data center initiative, like a cloud migration project or a consolidation, can be very hectic. Often the sense of urgency increases as a fixed deadline for completion looms. Because of the risks involved—a data breach, for example—a cloud migration or data center consolidation should include planning for IT Asset Disposition so …
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Once you recognize the value of a proper IT asset disposal program at your company, your next step is to determine who is actually going to do the work. For data destruction, you have a couple of options: assign members of your internal team to the task, partner with an IT asset disposal vendor to do …
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Choosing an IT recycling vendor for your business is not something that should be done without careful consideration. If your objective is to avoid having your company’s IT assets end up in landfills, stockpiled in forgotten warehouses, or shipped overseas to countries with lax regulations, you will need to choose an IT recycling vendor that …
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Risk managers look very closely at their enterprise’s operations and try to account for all the sources of uncertainty that may impede it from meeting its objectives or result in issues such as non-compliance, fines, or lost revenue. One area that should not get overlooked is what the enterprise does with its IT assets after …
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