Author Archives: Satya Iyer

Data security has become one of the highest priorities for business owners throughout the country in recent years. Reading about high profile cases of data breach, whether they were caused maliciously or accidentally, can make any business owner nervous. Could it happen to your business? While it’s impossible to completely remove the risk of data …

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When your company sends any piece of IT equipment to be recycled or resold, you must be sure that any data stored on its hard drives or other storage media has been or will be completely erased. The reasons are obvious; data security is a major priority for companies these days. The costs associated with …

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If you’re in charge of ensuring your company’s retired IT assets are disposed of legally and responsibly, you’re faced with a challenging task. IT assets often pass through a number of hands before they reach their final disposition. That’s a lot of steps in the chain to investigate. On top of that, recyclers may not …

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What many organizations don’t realize about IT asset disposition (ITAD) is that the vendor that picks up their equipment to be recycled or remarketed is not necessarily the last one to touch the equipment. Asset disposition is a chain that extends from the original owner to the final disposition of the asset, ideally through recycling …

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If you’re involved with planning for the disposition of your company’s retired IT assets, you’ve probably heard the terms e-Stewards, e-Stewards certification, or e-Stewards standard used in regard to finding a vendor that will dispose of your equipment according to all environmental regulations and best practices. If your team is already talking about e-Stewards, you’re …

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Even if your company never intended to break environmental regulations, it could find itself charged with doing so anyway. When you’re planning environmental policies and procedures, it’s not just your own company’s practices you need to worry about. If the vendors your company partners with don’t follow responsible and compliant environmental practices disposing of your …

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When your company turns its retired IT equipment over to a vendor for asset remarketing, what happens to the equipment that vendor can’t sell as a working asset? It’s a more important question than you might think. As you know, the market for used IT assets is fickle and very dependent on trends. If too …

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Cases of irresponsible and outright illegal practices by IT recyclers are appearing with greater frequency in the news as of late. Mountains of equipment leaching toxic chemicals into the environment have been discovered at facilities in the U.S. as well as overseas. Governments and human rights organizations are concerned about the conditions for workers at …

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Has your company’s IT asset disposition partner (a recycler or remarketer that handles your IT equipment after it has outlived its usefulness to your company) given you a “certificate of recycling” or another similar document meant to certify that your material will be handled according to all environmental laws and standards? If your company is …

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