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Data Center Decommissioning

Data Center

July 28, 2026

Data Center Relocation Checklist: Preparing Enterprise IT Hardware for a Successful Move

A data center move puts every piece of hardware you own on the table at once. Some of it travels to the new site and goes back into production. Some of it gets refurbished and redeployed. The rest reaches the end of its useful life and needs to leave your custody in a way you […]

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Graphic illustrating the five key phases of global data center decommissioning throughout the secure infrastructure retirement lifecycle.
ITAD

July 7, 2026

The 5 Key Phases of Global Data Center Decommissioning

  Global data center decommissioning involves retiring, consolidating, or relocating data center infrastructure across regions. Since these projects span facilities, stakeholders, and regulatory environments, they require a structured approach to minimize risk and disruption. A phased decommissioning process helps maintain operational continuity while ensuring sensitive data is securely destroyed and retired assets are properly handled. […]

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Technology & Engineering

May 29, 2026

Reconext Expands AI Compute Capacity in Its New York Data Center

Reconext has brought three new AI-focused servers online in our New York data center! The systems are owned and operated in-house, dedicated to AI development and model deployment.    What This Means for Your Program     Reconext now operates 24 AI accelerators in our own data center, on hardware in the same class used by major AI labs for large language model training. What that means […]

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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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Technology & Engineering

May 19, 2026

A New Model for Data Center Infrastructure Longevity

   Imagine this: you are standing in Woking, Surrey, England, within the McLaren Technology Centre. In front of you is the championship-winning McLaren MCL39, the body cosmetically restored to like-new condition after its past year of hard racing.  CEO Zak Brown eagerly explains the aerodynamic setup that brought the team to victory last season. […]

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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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Technology & Engineering

January 21, 2026

Signals from next-generation infrastructure conversations

Industry events are most valuable when they move beyond vision slides and into honest conversations about constraints. That was the value of the discussions that came out of December’s OCP EMEA Open Day in Nuremberg and the SC25 conference later in the month.  Across both settings, the same themes surfaced again and again. Infrastructure density is […]

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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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The end-of-life blind spot that slows down data centers
Data Center

December 1, 2025

The end-of-life blind spot that slows down data centers

Data centers stay current by staying in motion. Hardware moves through a steady rhythm of deployment, refresh, and retirement. The process is familiar. The assumptions inside it are older than the infrastructure they manage. That is where the gap lives. Most operators already know their hardware has more life in it. They see the test […]

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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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