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ITAD

May 28, 2026

What Should Be Included in an ITAD SLA?

In 2022, the SEC fined Morgan Stanley $35 million after they lost servers containing customers’ PII during ITAD operations. This penalty could have been avoided if they had a clear ITAD SLA with their vendor. The incident highlighted how weaknesses in asset tracking, oversight, and vendor management can create serious compliance and security risks. An […]

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ITAD

May 27, 2026

Reconext Now Offers Tape Disposal

Tape disposal is now part of the Reconext service portfolio, in partnership with Insurgo Media Services, purpose-built specialists whose approach goes uniquely further than standard methods:  Patented and proven dual-layer sanitization process  Unique 3-layer asset tracking process   Lower power consumption and certified media reuse options delivering stronger ESG performance  Full audit reporting and proof throughout the entire destruction and sanitization […]

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ITAD

May 27, 2026

On-Site Data Degaussing: How Secure Magnetic Data Destruction Works

Traditional data destruction methods left room for sensitive information to remain recoverable. As organizations faced growing concerns over compliance failures and security breaches, data degaussing emerged as a more definitive way to permanently erase magnetic storage media.  For organizations handling sensitive information, where and how this process takes place can be just as important as […]

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ITAD

May 20, 2026

What To Do With End-of-Life (EOL) IT Equipment

End-of-life (EOL) IT equipment has a tendency to pile up in server rooms and storage closets. Nobody ever knows what exactly to do with it, so it just sits there collecting dust and security risks. Although these devices may no longer be in active use, they can still expose sensitive business data to unauthorized parties. […]

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ITAD

May 13, 2026

The 4 Steps of the IT Asset Disposition Process

Most employees use at least 2.5 IT devices daily, such as laptops, smartphones and tablets. Multiply that by your workforce, and the total number of devices in your organization quickly adds up. However, the volume of devices isn’t the main issue. Over time, hardware fails or becomes obsolete, requiring replacement with newer, more capable technology. […]

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ITAD

May 13, 2026

How ITAD Data Sanitization Methods Protect Retired Assets

$4.44 million. That is the average cost of a data breach according to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report. Your organization is likely to suffer a loss, whether small or large, if you dispose of retired IT assets without first performing proper ITAD data sanitization. The good news is that the $4.44 million […]

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ITAD

April 24, 2026

Secure ITAD Process Guide: Key Steps for Data Protection

Most businesses experience huge losses from data breaches related to improper ITAD processes. According to the 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, the average cost of these breaches in the US hit $10.22 million in 2025. End-of-life devices are the primary targets of these data breaches because they often contain unmonitored residual data. This especially happens […]

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ITAD

April 20, 2026

How to Implement a Defensible ITAD Strategy for Healthcare Manufacturing

Getting FDA approval for the design and commissioning of healthcare devices marks a major milestone in healthcare manufacturing. Today marks the beginning of a regulatory lifecycle that you must actively manage and oversee. To ensure compliance with this, the FDA established the Total Product Life Cycle, which requires you to have a comprehensive plan for […]

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ITAD

April 6, 2026

IT Asset Disposition Best Practices Every IT Team Needs

IT Asset Disposition Best Practices   Your IT department probably has a pile of unused yet critical IT assets sitting in storage and you don’t know how to dispose of them. A last minute disposal without a disposition strategy could result in huge liabilities for your organization. To avoid this, you need to follow a […]

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ITAD

January 27, 2026

What is ITAD? Why Secure IT asset disposal matters

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 […]

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Data Center

January 26, 2026

Why IT asset disposition became a critical market, not a back-office task

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 […]

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Data Center

January 5, 2026

Data center migration challenges: what really matters when systems move

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 […]

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