The threat of data loss, coupled with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, has IT pros rethinking their disposal methods for computer gear. Getting rid of obsolete IT gear isn’t as simple ...

Disposing of outdated computing equipment is a costly proposition for companies--even if they manage to sell off some gear, a new study says. Released Monday by research company Gartner, the study ...

At the end of the accepted lifecycle, specified by the IT division, all Institute-owned technology equipment, untagged or tagged with property identification tags, should be properly decommissioned ...

I love disposing of problems. The other day, I was presented with a disposal problem. As I was walking down the hall, I noticed a lot of old computer equipment sitting next to a pile of trash. My ...

Issues related to the disposal of old IT equipment and of properly destroying the information it contains are starting to come to the forefront, said Jim Stover, partner at ClearNorth Technologies, an ...

HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has announced the results of a survey of 300 corporate management and IT executives at companies with 500 and more employees. According to HP, the results reveal that ...

A coalition pushing for better recycling of toxin-containing PCs used its Monday stop in Denver to criticize giant Dell Computer Corp. as a "laggard in the recycling effort." The Hard Drive Across the ...