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By Ian Lovell, VP of Strategy & Technical Solutions, Reconext  Most enterprise IT teams run their operations inside the ServiceNow® platform. It keeps work organized, tracks assets, manages approvals, and supports the daily flow of activity across global IT environments. When assets reach end-of-life, though, the workflow often leaves that system. Teams shift to email […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]