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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 […]

Reconext is set to take the stage at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, October 13–16, 2025. With this year’s theme, Leading the Future of AI, the event brings together the world’s top innovators to reimagine the infrastructure powering tomorrow’s data centers. Reconext will be there to make sure the circular […]

Managing technical documentation across multiple languages is one of the most time-consuming challenges in global operations. Manual translation and formatting take hours, create inconsistencies, and increase costs.  To address this, Reconext engineers developed TransCreatorDocs, an AI-assisted tool that simplifies the creation, translation, and management of Work Instructions. The tool is already in use at one […]

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 […]

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.  […]