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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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Data Center

December 31, 2025

Data center migration: a complete guide to moving systems safely

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 […]

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ITAD

December 1, 2025

Connecting ITAD to ServiceNow

By Ian Lovell, VP of Strategy & Technical Solutions, Reconext    85% of Fortune 500 companies run on ServiceNow. Between ticketing, HR requests, and procurement, it’s probably already how your organization gets things done.  Now your ITAD process can run there too.  Reconext integrates with ReturnCenter, available on the ServiceNow app store, so your organization’s […]

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Server recycling process from risk to recovery
Data Center

October 3, 2025

Server recycling process from risk to recovery

Strip a server down and you’ll find the same things every time: processors, DIMMs, GPUs, boards, power supplies, storage. None of it is waste until you decide to treat it like waste. The server recycling process is about making those decisions in the right order. Disassembly with intent, not demolition by default.  Handled well, the […]

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Data Center Decommissioning: The Ultimate Checklist
Data Center

September 29, 2025

Data Center Decommissioning: The Ultimate Checklist

Every data center has an end of life. Sometimes it’s a cloud migration, sometimes a merger, sometimes just the cost of keeping old hardware alive. But when that day comes, pulling the plug is the easy part. A bigger and more complicated question is “what happens next?” Closing a data center isn’t just an IT […]

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Server decommission checklist process showing backup, wipe, custody, and reuse/recycle steps around a central server icon.
Data Center

September 23, 2025

Server Decommission Checklist

Retiring a machine without haunting your network Servers don’t really die when you unplug them. They die when you erase their traces: the data, the credentials, the DNS entries someone forgot years ago. Miss a backup, skip a wipe, leave an account active, and that “dead” box can still cause outages, breaches, or fines. This […]

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