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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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Sustainability

December 17, 2025

Insights from the Circular Circuits outreach event in the Netherlands

The shift toward circular electronics is happening, but it is not happening evenly. Some companies are far along. Others are still figuring out where to start. The real progress tends to happen when both groups sit in the same room and compare what they are seeing in the field with what they are seeing in the lab.  This […]

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Technology & Engineering

December 10, 2025

A faster path to onboarding new enterprise hardware

In the world of enterprise servers, every model looks a little different. Ports change. Backplanes shift. Carriers and sleds come and go. These small variations cause friction during onboarding, because each configuration needs its own procedure for safe and consistent data sanitization.  Over the past year, our storage engineering teams in Havant and Penang have […]

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Technology & Engineering

December 10, 2025

How an R&D team in Northern Europe is changing the way devices move through our network

There is a moment in every returns program where a device first meets a technician. The technician looks it over, checks its condition, notes damage, and decides what should happen next. That moment shapes everything that follows. The more consistent it is, the better the outcomes for the customer and the clearer the path for […]

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Technology & Engineering

December 10, 2025

How OCR is cleaning up a messy part of the returns process

At one of our high-volume laptop programs, a simple task was slowing everything down.  Every unit that arrived on site needed its serial number checked against a shipping pre alert. On paper, that is straightforward. In reality, it meant people leaning over boxes, reading tiny fonts, keying long alphanumeric strings into a system, and trying […]

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