IT Recycling vs Re-Using When your equipment gets to the end of its IT lifecycle or when a tech refresh leaves IT assets unused, organizations look for the most secure, ethical, and sustainable solution for retiring hardware while maximizing investment returns. So which is the better option for your equipment: to re-use or recycle? Re-Using IT [...]
As we go further along into the technological era, proper ITAD or IT Asset Disposition should be an integral part of every organization. After all, with the growing sophistication of IT hardware and with companies allocating significant IT budgets for hardware spending, a lot of planning should also be put into the disposal of millions of metric tons [...]
Atlanta, Dec 2nd, 2020 – Leading IT research firm Gartner recently released its 2020 Market Guide for IT Asset Disposition, featuring CentricsIT as a noted provider. Gartner releases report titled, “Market Guide for IT Asset Disposition,” compiled by Rob Schafer and Christopher Dixon. This report was published on November 30, 2020. Readers must be a Gartner subscriber to [...]
Your hardware is moving out of your data center and you need to send out for recycling and proper disposal. However, before you can get started, you need to make sure your data is securely wiped or destroyed. With companies needing their internal IT teams focused on more strategic tasks, and because they need a certificate of data [...]
Companies are searching for new and better ways to become more sustainable. As talent and clients alike are looking to partner with environmentally conscious enterprises, finding the right responsible enterprise e-recycling solution is rising on the list of strategic initiatives. For those companies, the first step towards a greener culture starts in their data centers. More than 40 [...]
A new year means a new IT budget. You could spend time that you don’t have re-structuring your operations, tweaking your networks, cost-cutting infrastructure, and generally cutting corners—all for small percentage savings with no real guarantee. There’s lower-hanging fruit for cost-optimization. Rather than expend exorbitant time and effort, you could take more logical and efficient measures that don’t [...]
With global ITAD solutions provider Arrow Electronics announcing its intention to leave the IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) industry to focus on other divisions of its operations, Arrow Electronics ITAD clients are left to find new alternatives. This cost-cutting initiative to wind down Arrow’s ITAD operations by the end of 2019 in most of the countries the company currently [...]
Security doesn’t end when your hardware does. As you prepare to decommission equipment, you need to plan for your data security. Do you destroy the latent data or erase it? You must continue security best practices beyond the lifecycle use of your physical equipment. And the most critical part of that is deciding what to do with your [...]
There is no “out of sight; out of mind” when it comes to latent data. In the age of breaches, companies can’t take risks when it comes to data security and data destruction. Dispose of your hardware without properly sanitizing the drives first, and you leave your company open, not only to data breaches, but also to heavy [...]
Certifications delivered by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) are a system of world-wide quality management standards focused on global, industrial, and commercial best practices for each industry. These quality certifications serve as a way to ensure that organizations across the world follow the same outlines and processes to maintain quality and ensure employee safety. Occupational Health and [...]
