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Most organizations have a clear process for buying IT equipment. There are approvals. Budgets. Asset tags. Deployment checklists. Everything is tracked carefully when devices enter the business. Then, one day, those same devices are retired. Laptops are replaced. Servers are decommissioned. Storage arrays are pulled from racks. Equipment leaves desks, closets, and data centers. And […]

Why IT asset disposition became a critical market, not a back-office task Modern data centers retire IT assets constantly. Servers get refreshed. Storage devices get pulled. Network gear gets swapped as requirements shift. In large environments, this is routine. It is also where risk shows up. Retired assets still contain sensitive data. They often still […]

Data center migrations are often presented as infrastructure projects. In practice, they are moments of exposure. They disrupt systems that may have been running quietly for years. They force long-standing assumptions into the open. They involve not just technology, but people, process, accountability, and trust. Most migration risks do not come from architecture decisions or […]

Most teams don’t plan for the day they have to move a data center. Then a lease ends. Or power density hits a ceiling. Or growth quietly outpaces the facility that was supposed to support it. Suddenly, a normal quarter becomes a countdown. That’s the real beginning of a data center migration. Not when the […]

By Ian Lovell, VP of Strategy & Technical Solutions, Reconext  Most enterprise IT teams run their operations inside the ServiceNow® platform. It keeps work organized, tracks assets, manages approvals, and supports the daily flow of activity across global IT environments. When assets reach end-of-life, though, the workflow often leaves that system. Teams shift to email […]