Due to increasing demand for services in the United Arab Emirates, Sims Recycling Solutions, a leading provider of electronics recycling and IT asset disposition services, moved to a larger facility in Jebel Ali. The facility is four times larger, and is now fully operational. “We had outgrown our previous facility,” stated Stephen Phelan, managing director…
Ten years ago, formalized selection processes for disposal of IT assets were rare and vendor vetting was mostly non-existent. Few questions were asked and most companies were satisfied with any service with the ability to quickly haul away their retired IT equipment. Gartner released their first “Magic Quadrant for North America Information Technology Asset Disposition”…
Whether you have a good IT asset inventory list or need to start from scratch, here are some recommendations to help you manage a strong IT asset register.
It was 16 years ago when SRS representatives walked the halls of the Rosen Centre in Orlando for the very first E-Scrap Conference. With a few hundred attendees it was clear the e-waste industry was starting to see rapid growth in demand. Today this event has evolved to be one of the biggest annual conferences…
Risk Based Security reported that 8 billion records were compromised by 5,207 data breaches in 2017. The average breach costs companies $3.62 million (€2.69 million), according to global research conducted by Ponemon Institute for their 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Overview. Contributing to that hefty tab are legal defense fees, regulatory noncompliance penalties,…
Do you have a customer list? Do you store or process customer data? The reality is, most businesses across the globe store and process some level of personal data whether the subject is a client, patient, vendor, consumer or employee. Businesses are responsible for ensuring the security of this data however, according to FierceCEO, 53…
How you can implement circular economy measures in your IT asset disposition (ITAD) and recycling programs to improve value recovery and make your business more sustainable. We are living on a planet with finite resources and depleting those precious commodities quickly. As a result there is great momentum in the search for circular processes that…
By now you should be aware of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but are you sure you understand how it might affect your company? Specifically when managing your organization’s IT assets? As we approach enforcement of the regulation this spring 2018, many are scrambling to have a better understanding of how to ensure…
Did your company implement, improve or maintain an IT asset disposition (ITAD) program in 2017? With a year focused on data security and breach prevention many were diligent about implementing, maintaining or improving their ITAD plans and processes. Therefore it came as no surprise that the most popular blog posts of the 2017 calendar year…
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is understandably a topic of intense discussion and review among IT asset disposition (ITAD) professionals. Adopted in April 2016 and scheduled to come into effect in May 2018, the regulation will apply to all organisations – public and private, anywhere in the world – that handle,…