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.

We’re all familiar with unintentional hoarding of things that may have been useful at one point but end up collecting dust and taking up unnecessary space. The same is true of data, but holding on to it for too long can have serious consequences.

More than ever, organizations of all sizes in the public and private sectors are rethinking their IT asset disposition (ITAD) strategy, putting equipment reuse first whenever possible over asset destruction and recycling.

In one of the most advanced financial services privacy breaches ever to occur in Australia, its largest bank lost control of 10 years’ worth of customers’ financial information when a subcontractor lost several tape drives containing banking statements from 2004 through 2014.