Ali Fenn, president of ITRenew and one of Mission Critical’s inaugural Top 25 Women in Technology winners, discusses how data centers can contribute to a circular economy in this episode of The Thought Cloud.

Circularity is a broad concept that encompasses many things, but it could be said to have two primary aims: creating resiliency and fostering holistic sustainability.

The SS16-A shreds a variety of solid-state media with to particles of 16 mm or less in under 5 seconds.

After jumping out early in 2020 as a voice of caution for corporations unprepared for the shift to WFH under COVID-19, IAITAM is now looking ahead to what it expects in the new year of 2021.

Every day during December, IT Asset Management Awareness Month, the organization will offer free sessions that highlight the industry’s most popular topics or issues, including ITAD, data/privacy risks, licensing, mobile asset management, software asset management, and best practices.

Together, the companies will deliver IT environments that leverage the Open Compute Project principles and advanced technologies.

CommScope’s Professional Services team will manage the upgrade of StackPath’s data centers —including the installation of new switches, power distribution units, and network cabling, as well as the decommissioning of equipment, asset tagging and recovery, bespoke packaging, logistics, and warehousing in preparation for future redeployment.

With more capacity shifting to the cloud, the challenges and costs associated with decommissioning are on the rise.

Organizations rely on their information security departments or engage outside consultancies to try to protect against attacks, but preventative efforts fail with alarming frequency, even for the largest companies with the most well-funded cybersecurity efforts.