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Data Center

November 5, 2025

How to Measure Success in Data Center IT Asset Recycling

Not every asset recycling program delivers the same results. Organizations that already recycle their data center equipment know this. Without quality metrics to measure the recycling process, you’re working blindly towards money-saving, data protection, and environmental impact goals.  This discussion outlines the five key performance indicators (KPIs) that define a mature, high-impact IT asset recycling […]

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Data Center

November 5, 2025

Data Center Recycling: DIY vs Professional Partner

On paper, recycling a data center sounds simple. You shut down the racks, pack up the gear, and send it off for responsible disposal. Easy, right? Then the reality hits. Every cable, drive, and rack in that room carries a different kind of risk – data that can’t leak, metals that need to be recycled […]

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Data Center

October 10, 2025

Data Center Equipment Recycling: A Reuse-First Program

Shredders are loud. Certificates are quiet. But when you’re retiring a data center, it’s the quiet proof that matters most. Recycling isn’t a dramatic finale of sparks and steel; it’s the deliberate work of separating what can be reused, what must be erased, and what finally gets melted down. Key Takeaway Reuse first, recycle second. […]

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Server Recycling Myths That Waste Money (and How to Fix Them)
Data Center

October 3, 2025

Server Recycling Myths That Waste Money (and How to Fix Them)

A rack of decommissioned servers leaves your floor. Inside: critical data that can’t leak. Components brokers still fight over. An audit trail your compliance team will need in six months. None of that is news to you. What matters is whether your recycling program protects all three. The industry default has been blunt: call the […]

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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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where to do data decommissioning
Data Center

September 19, 2025

Where to do data center decommissioning

Data center decommissioning: where do we actually do this? On-site? Off-site? Ship it out and hope?  Sounds like a rookie question. It isn’t. “Where” decides custody, evidence, carbon, and cash. Pick wrong, and you don’t just risk data. You burn money and hand regulators a headline. So let’s indulge the question. Let’s talk about where.  […]

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Data Center Decommissioning Process Guide
Data Center

September 13, 2025

Data Center Decommissioning Process Guide

Most people outside the industry picture decommissioning as a demolition job: pull the plugs, shred the drives, close the doors. Simple, right? Not exactly. Inside a real data center, retiring equipment isn’t a smash-and-grab. A single rack can generate four, five, even 600 dependent tickets. Servers, applications, cables, door access, escorts, power downs, and safety […]

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The gold mine in your data center
Technology & Engineering

July 3, 2025

The gold mine in your data center

How a leading personal computing company turned monthly waste into millions and why most data centers still pay to destroy what they could recover    In 2017, a major OEM was paying $350,000 a month to destroy used storage devices. Most worked perfectly, but because they had once held customer data, they were marked for […]

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Reconext Announces Completion of Major Data Center Decommissioning Project, Highlighting Environmental Benefits of Second-Life Utilization
News

May 7, 2025

Reconext Announces Completion of Major Data Center Decommissioning Project, Highlighting Environmental Benefits of Second-Life Utilization

IRVING, Texas, May 7, 2025 – Reconext, a global leader in repair, refurbishment, recovery, and remarketing solutions for electronic devices, announced today its role in a large-scale data center decommissioning project for a major global technology company. This significant project involved the removal and secure processing of 2,500 AI servers powered by NVIDIA GPUs and […]

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Digital Chain Of Custody Done Right
Security

April 11, 2025

The Invisible Fortress

Digital Chain of Custody Done Right Chain of custody has always been rife with “acceptable inefficiencies”—a polite industry term for blind spots between verification points where assets effectively disappear from secure oversight. Companies have had to tolerate this reality for decades—these gaps between checkpoints where custody becomes a matter of faith rather than fact. These […]

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