Value Recovery

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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Data Center

December 31, 2025

Data center migration: a complete guide to moving systems safely

Most teams don’t plan for the day they have to move a data center. Then a lease ends. Or power density hits a ceiling. Or growth quietly outpaces the facility that was supposed to support it. Suddenly, a normal quarter becomes a countdown. That’s the real beginning of a data center migration. Not when the […]

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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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The end-of-life blind spot that slows down data centers
Data Center

December 1, 2025

The end-of-life blind spot that slows down data centers

Data centers stay current by staying in motion. Hardware moves through a steady rhythm of deployment, refresh, and retirement. The process is familiar. The assumptions inside it are older than the infrastructure they manage. That is where the gap lives. Most operators already know their hardware has more life in it. They see the test […]

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A simple machine, a big shift in circularity
Spotlight

November 17, 2025

A simple machine, a big shift in circularity

Some of the best improvements in hardware recovery come from simple ideas. A machine that removes the top layer of plastic. A small shift in workflow. A single trial batch that surprises everyone.  This story started with remote controls. The kind that ship with every set-top box. The kind customers drop, scratch, and replace without thinking about […]

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When a large notebook order needed a fast fix, a PC maker turned to us
Spotlight

November 17, 2025

When a large notebook order needed a fast fix, a PC maker turned to us

A straightforward rework project completed at scale and on a tight clock.  A global PC manufacturer recently committed to delivering a large batch of notebooks with a regional keyboard layout. The commitment was made during the sales process. The volume was significant. The delivery date was fixed. The manufacturing line did not have the capacity […]

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Server recycling process from risk to recovery
Data Center

October 3, 2025

Server recycling process from risk to recovery

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 […]

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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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