|
Cover Story
Protect Yourself - Certified Data Erasure Enables Security in Disposal Management Policy
By: Markku Willgren, President, US Operations for Blancco LLC
Management of information technology (IT) assets is a complex task for any organization and an important effort in controlling IT costs. While maximizing asset use is important in achieving IT budgets, even greater costs are at stake if a company does not create and enforce an asset disposal management policy that protects data, the environment and regulatory compliance. Read More...
Feature Article
ITAD Certifications - Standards & Certifications in IT Asset Retirement
By: Rike Sandlin, Director of Marketing & Communications for Intechra, LLC
IT asset management – along with the service providers that support it – has been an industry in transition for the past several years. Once a fledgling role in just a few organizations, we are now excited to see enterprises around the world establishing IT asset management teams to realize the benefits of professional accountability for assets. Service providers have emerged or adapted to support the needs of asset managers for every stage of the asset lifecycle. Read More...
Disposal Risks - Best Practices for Mitigating Risk During IT Asset Collection
By: Shawn Stockman, Business Development for OnePak, Inc.
Beyond the Hype
Much of the hype around IT asset disposal casts a wary finger at recyclers and how they handle toxic substances found in electronics and how they handle data stored on hard drives. This article explores risks that occur well before your assets ever reach their doors—during the asset collection process. Read More...
Electronics Stewardship - Electronics Recycling: Certification is the Silver Bullet
By: Robert Houghton, President of Redemtech Inc.
IT professionals have become good environmental and privacy stewards during the past 10 years—on paper.
When we founded Redemtech in 1998, customers would often argue for the dumpster as an acceptable disposal strategy. No more. Read More...
Risk Outweighs Green in ITAD - Process Discipline is Key to Reducing Risk
By: Chris Adam, Vice President - IT Asset Disposition Solutions for Converge
In a recent national survey, nearly all IT managers said that IT asset disposition (ITAD) – the proper disposal of end of life IT equipment – has become a strategic issue for senior management. Unfortunately, the survey also revealed there is little consistency as to how that responsibility is handled.
The importance of implementing a disciplined ITAD process to mitigate risk is the underlying message gleaned from this market survey. Read More...
Disposal Harvesting - Reduce Your Software Budget with End-of-Life Harvesting
By: Barbara Rembiesa, President of IAITAM
This month’s QSP (Quick Success Project) centers on the Disposal Management Key Process Area. Disposal Management as many of you that have attended IAITAM’s CHAMP course can attest to is more than “disposing”. Many articles in this month’s ITAK surround best practices and views of what best practice disposal includes, but many are from the hardware side alone. One of the key processes within the disposal process should be what happens to the software on those machines. I have therefore chosen the QSP of software harvesting at end-of-life as this month’s topic. Read More...
Working Together - An ITAMer's Intro to Convergence
By: Justin Stefano, Vice President/ / ITSM Practice Lead for Five9 Technologies
To-date most IT organizations have focused on improving IT process from a “point perspective” and within one department, technology area or function at a time. The most common models and tools for this type of improvement are three best practice frameworks:
- Infrastructure Library , ITIL, for process improvements related to the delivery and support of IT Services - Operational Focus
- IT Asset Management, ITAM, for managing IT assets throughout their lifecycle - Financial Focus
- Project and Portfolio Management, PPM, for the management of the portfolio of IT investments from Ideas through Implementation – Development, Project and People Resource focus
Read More...
PoP is Here to Stay - Software Proof of Purchase: The Necessity Remains Clear
By: Dan Ingouf, Content Development Manager for IAITAM
A realization recently occurred to me that I thought was relevant, kind of ironic and definitely worth sharing. Spring in Ohio has finally started to take hold after a very long and what I rate as a rather brutal winter. With the much anticipated spring-like weather abounding, I started preparing planter areas using bags of composted animal manure that I had purchased at a major home improvement retail store. Oddly, when I was opening the bags, I noticed a prominent bar code and the words “Proof of Purchase” printed above the bar code. Read More...
|
