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how to vet a recycler for LTO tapes
Data Center Services
Alex

How to Vet a Certified Downstream Recycler for Your LTO Tapes

Enterprise data tape may not get the same attention as hard drives or cloud infrastructure, but LTO tape remains one of the most widely used and sensitive data storage formats in the world. Financial institutions, healthcare providers, government agencies, and large enterprises rely on LTO tapes for long-term retention, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance. When those tapes reach end-of-life, choosing the right Recycler for Your LTO Tapes is not just an operational decision—it is a data security, compliance, and risk-management

Alex December 27, 2025
Dirty Secret of IT Asset Disposal
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Alex

The Dirty Secret of IT Asset Disposal: Is Your ‘Recycled’ Equipment Ending Up Overseas?

The Myth of “Safe Recycling” When you send your old laptops, servers, or data tapes off to be “recycled,” do you actually know what happens to them? Most companies assume recycling equals safety, compliance, and environmental responsibility. In reality, much of that IT equipment—whether hard drives, SSDs, servers, data tapes, or cell phones—doesn’t get responsibly processed. Instead, it’s shipped overseas, often under the false label of “reuse” or “refurbishment.” The result? Entire containers of discarded technology dumped in developing nations,

Alex September 11, 2025
Data Center with Servers demonstrating old equipment laying around. Money for your old it equipment
Data Center Services
Kathy

Is Used Data Center Equipment Right for Your Business?

We live in a time where data centers are everywhere. Data centers are the backbone of business, providing access to computing and storage resources for your operations.  From running complex applications to storing sensitive data, data centers are all in for businesses. But building and running a data center facility can strain your financial resources, with costs in equipment, cooling systems, power subsystems, and data center security. If you want to balance performance with cost savings, used data center equipment

Kathy February 25, 2025

IT Asset Disposition: Unlocking Hidden Value

Every rack of decommissioned servers sitting in a storage closet is money on the table. So is every pallet of old laptops, switches, and hard drives waiting for “someone to deal with them eventually.” That’s what IT asset disposition (ITAD) solves. Done right, it turns retired hardware into recovered cash, closes a serious data security gap, and keeps your company out of regulatory trouble — all at the same time. Done wrong, or not at all, old IT equipment becomes

Steven July 24, 2024
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Dustin

What to Check Before Hiring a Data Center Liquidation Company

If you’re considering hiring a data center liquidation company, there are a few things you’ll want to check first. In this article, we’ll cover what to look for in a data center liquidation company, so that you can be sure you’re getting the best possible service. Datacenter liquidation is the process of permanently shutting down a data center and selling off all of its assets. This can be done for a variety of reasons, such as when a company goes

Dustin September 23, 2022
Big Data
Alex

Big Data Services: Unleashed

Big Data, refers to that large amount of data that is there in individual companies to run their businesses every day. The data can either be structured or unstructured or both. The data is important for the companies as these data help the companies in having insights into the world. These data help the companies to make future decisions and also give direction to their future strategies. It is not about how much data has been generated by the company

Alex August 31, 2021

Why ITAD is the Secret to Staying Ahead of Emerging Technologies

The IT world is changing and progressing every day with new products and opportunities demanding new technologies and strategies.  With rapid evolution comes general excitement over new and valuable opportunities for businesses to reorganize, expand and improve. Nevertheless, changes in technologies also provides businesses much to think about as the learning curve becomes sharper and the rate of shifting operations becomes tougher to keep up with. As companies continue to make headway into the future defined by 5G and AI,

Alex December 23, 2019

Guide to Sustainability in 2020

Corporate social responsibility and increasing overall sustainability continues to be a rising concern for many businesses. Yet there remains to be a vast amount of organizations that are oblivious to the impact of technology on the environment. We’ve compiled some statistics to aid your organization’s IT department in becoming more sustainable in 2020 and years to come. Reduce the Amount of Emails You Send A recent report by OVOenergy found that over 64 million unwarranted emails are sent per day, in

Alex December 19, 2019

The Self Destruction of HPE SSDs

Warning: Owners of HPE Solid State Drives Need This Updated Immediately ATTENTION! Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently announced a critical customer support bulletin regarding the expected failure of a wide range of the enterprise-class solid state drives currently being used in some of its products. In the recently released report, HPE reveals the discovery of a firmware bug that will inevitably cause drive failures. If the drives in question have been in use for 32,768 hours or (3 years, 270

Alex December 6, 2019

Recycle IT

When thinking about recycling used materials, more often than not the three R’s will come to mind. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. How do they relate to items that aren’t just plastic bags, glass bottles, and aluminum cans? The concept of e-waste is relatively modern when you consider the fact that civilization wasn’t so dependent on computers and cellphones half a century ago. However, it is still just as harmful as any other form of waste, if not more. We’ve compiled

Alex November 14, 2019

ASCDI podcast

ASCDI Podcast: Meet DTC Computer Supplies, a company dedicated to the secondary market New to the AscdiNatd, DTC Computer Supplies is a family owned company specializing in buying and selling IT equipment that offers a deep bench of experience in the industry, and especially in data storage products. In this podcast, Norm Hutton, Wholesale Purchasing and Sales with DTC, gives us a look at the new ASCDI member. Hutton discusses how DTC offers many services including quantity discounts, same day

Alex May 30, 2019
outdated electronics being recycled
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Alex

Why Do Electronics Get Outdated So Fast?

Why Electronics Don’t Last Like They Used To It often feels like the moment you buy a new laptop, phone, or TV, a newer and better version appears almost overnight. What once felt like a long-term investment now feels temporary. Decades ago, families expected electronics to last ten years or more. Today, many devices are replaced every two to five years—or even sooner in business environments. So what changed? The short answer is competition, consumer demand, and how deeply technology

Alex December 15, 2017

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