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Sustainability

September 9, 2026

The Challenges of Sustainable IT and How to Solve Them

Corporate sustainability commitments are colliding with an IT environment that changes fast. It consumes more power, generates more waste, and turns over hardware faster than it did five years ago.  We live in an age where equipment has never been more power-hungry. Much of that growth is owed to the rise of AI integrations. Global […]

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ITAD

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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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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Graphic illustrating the five key phases of global data center decommissioning throughout the secure infrastructure retirement lifecycle.
ITAD

July 7, 2026

The 5 Key Phases of Global Data Center Decommissioning

  Global data center decommissioning involves retiring, consolidating, or relocating data center infrastructure across regions. Since these projects span facilities, stakeholders, and regulatory environments, they require a structured approach to minimize risk and disruption. A phased decommissioning process helps maintain operational continuity while ensuring sensitive data is securely destroyed and retired assets are properly handled. […]

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ITAD

July 2, 2026

10 Practical Strategies to Boost ROI from Retired IT Hardware

Every hardware refresh cycle creates a window of opportunity to recover measurable financial value from retiring IT hardware, but the outcome depends on decisions made before and during the IT asset disposition process. Organizations that approach ITAD strategically can recover more value, reduce unnecessary costs, and strengthen compliance. Factors like processing speed, data sanitization, asset […]

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Technology & Engineering

June 16, 2026

What a Consolidated APAC Reverse Logistics Program Actually Delivers

Asia Pacific is the world’s largest electronics manufacturing market, yet the reverse logistics infrastructure serving it has never quite matched that scale. The region spans dozens of distinct regulatory environments but has none of the harmonized frameworks that make multi-country operations more manageable in places like EMEA.  OEMs hoping to manage after-sale programs independently are forced into fragmentation, leaning on multiple local vendors to piece […]

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Technology & Engineering

May 19, 2026

A New Model for Data Center Infrastructure Longevity

   Imagine this: you are standing in Woking, Surrey, England, within the McLaren Technology Centre. In front of you is the championship-winning McLaren MCL39, the body cosmetically restored to like-new condition after its past year of hard racing.  CEO Zak Brown eagerly explains the aerodynamic setup that brought the team to victory last season. […]

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Data Center

January 26, 2026

Why IT asset disposition became a critical market, not a back-office task

Why IT asset disposition became a critical market, not a back-office task Modern data centers retire IT assets constantly. Servers get refreshed. Storage devices get pulled. Network gear gets swapped as requirements shift. In large environments, this is routine. It is also where risk shows up. Retired assets still contain sensitive data. They often still […]

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Technology & Engineering

January 21, 2026

Signals from next-generation infrastructure conversations

Industry events are most valuable when they move beyond vision slides and into honest conversations about constraints. That was the value of the discussions that came out of December’s OCP EMEA Open Day in Nuremberg and the SC25 conference later in the month.  Across both settings, the same themes surfaced again and again. Infrastructure density is […]

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Data Center

January 5, 2026

Data center migration challenges: what really matters when systems move

Data center migrations are often presented as infrastructure projects. In practice, they are moments of exposure. They disrupt systems that may have been running quietly for years. They force long-standing assumptions into the open. They involve not just technology, but people, process, accountability, and trust. Most migration risks do not come from architecture decisions or […]

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