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ITAD

May 20, 2026

What To Do With End-of-Life (EOL) IT Equipment

End-of-life (EOL) IT equipment has a tendency to pile up in server rooms and storage closets. Nobody ever knows what exactly to do with it, so it just sits there collecting dust and security risks. Although these devices may no longer be in active use, they can still expose sensitive business data to unauthorized parties. […]

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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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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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Reconext to Spotlight Circular Innovation at the OCP Global Summit
News

September 29, 2025

Reconext to Spotlight Circular Innovation at the OCP Global Summit

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 […]

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Technology & Engineering

September 24, 2025

AI Innovation Driving Smarter Quality Processes

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 […]

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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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Secure Data wiping
Data Center

September 16, 2025

Secure data destruction without wasting hardware value

In data center decommissioning projects, the same reflex comes up again and again: “If it has data, crush it.” Drives shredded. Servers smashed. Assets written off as scrap. It solves one problem and creates three more: financial, environmental, and operational. That’s the trap of treating secure data destruction as synonymous with physical destruction. Yes, shredding […]

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