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September 9, 2026

Hard Drive Destruction Regulations: What Compliance Actually Requires

What GDPR, HIPAA, GLBA, and NIST 800-88 expect when a hard drive reaches end of life, and what more than $155 million in penalties and settlement costs can teach organizations about secure disposal. In September 2022, the SEC hit Morgan Stanley Smith Barney with a $35 million fine for how it handled old hard drives. […]

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Data Center

September 9, 2026

How to Plan and Execute a Data Center Shutdown Safely

Taking a live data center offline introduces risk before any maintenance or infrastructure work begins. Once systems start going offline, the margin for error narrows and the ability to recover depends on decisions made before shutdown. An overlooked dependency can extend an outage beyond its intended scope. An unvalidated recovery plan can leave critical systems […]

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Technology & Engineering

August 24, 2026

Growing Together with Aurora: From Pilot Programs to 150+ SLAs Monitored Every Day

When we introduced Aurora earlier this year, we focused on what she could do. Since then, the most valuable work has gone into depth, defining the service level targets for each program so Aurora measures every customer by the standards that program is actually held to.  Three things have changed since launch. Aurora knows each program in far more detail, she runs […]

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IT asset tracking system using serialized labels, barcode scanning, and documented records to maintain audit-ready asset traceability.
ITAD

August 20, 2026

How to Make Your IT Asset Tracking System Audit-Ready

Having an IT asset inventory is a good start, but it does not guarantee audit readiness. Many organizations can produce a list of devices, yet struggle to prove that those records accurately reflect their current IT stack.  During an audit, reviewers need evidence that assets exist, ownership information is correct, custody changes are documented, and […]

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Technology & Engineering

August 10, 2026

Automated Device Initialization: Removing the Prep Bottleneck in Mobile Refurbishment

  Innovation at Reconext begins with observation. The steps that draw the least attention often hold the largest gains, and preparing returned devices for testing is a clear example.  Every returned device has to be charged, erased, and brought up to current software before testing can begin. Done one at a time, that work sets the pace for everything behind […]

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ITAD

August 6, 2026

6 Best Practices for Enterprise Reverse Logistics

Reverse logistics programs are usually scoped as transportation. But the exposure sits in everything transportation doesn’t cover: custody records, data still resident on drives, and reconciliation across sites and regions. That gap widens during a refresh, a site relocation, or any infrastructure change that retires hardware faster than an asset register can absorb it. Closing […]

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Spotlight

August 5, 2026

Built for Boring: How Verifone and Reconext Turned a Complex Supply Chain Into a Predictable One

  Brett Pagenkopp has a simple test for whether the day went well.  “Operationally, a great day is boring,” says the Senior Vice President of Operational Services at Verifone. “It means that we have had no issues, we’re fulfilling customer demand, we are meeting our efficiency output, all with 100% quality.”  That bar is harder […]

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ITAD

July 30, 2026

How to Implement an IT Asset Management Audit Program

Even organizations with well-defined IT asset management processes can still struggle with inaccurate asset records, policy gaps, and inconsistent controls. Without a structured audit process, these issues often remain undetected until an audit uncovers them. These gaps matter most when enterprise hardware approaches retirement. At that point every device has to answer four questions. Is […]

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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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ITAD

July 15, 2026

Global IT Asset Disposition: Best Practices for Managing IT Assets Across Multiple Countries 

  Multinational organizations often manage retired IT assets through a patchwork of regional vendors, local procedures, and disconnected reporting systems. The result is limited visibility, inconsistent data security controls, and difficulty proving compliance across countries. A global IT asset disposition program addresses this problem by establishing one governance framework for asset tracking, data security, reporting, […]

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ITAD

July 10, 2026

ITAD Data Security Compliance: Best Practices for Protecting Sensitive Data

Retired IT assets continue to pose a data security risk to your organization long after they leave the enterprise. Laptops, servers, drives, mobile devices, and networking equipment can still hold regulated data, intellectual property, credentials, customer information, and internal records. Without a secure and compliant IT asset disposition (ITAD) process, the result can be a […]

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ITAD

July 2, 2026

ITAD Data Sanitization: Secure Data Erasure Guide

Sensitive data lives across every device in an organization’s fleet. Laptops, servers, mobile devices, and storage media all accumulate years of business-critical information. When those assets reach end-of-life, that data does not disappear on its own. Retired IT equipment that leaves an organization without verified data removal can become a direct path to exposed sensitive […]

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