THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL | 25
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BY STEVE SKURNAC
e Benefits of
Responsible and
Efficient
IT Asset Disposal
While most operations within a data center remain unique, all make conscious efforts toward
efficiency, security and continuous operations that can help reduce costs and in some cases
protect and improve a data center's image or reputation. These efforts are all critical to day-to-
day operations as well as when upgrading, expanding or making changes in the data center. A
common element of data center maintenance involves systematically replacing and upgrading
existing equipment. This concept was labeled a few years ago by Gartner as IT asset disposition
(ITAD), referring to the process of methodically removing IT equipment from an IT environment
and responsibly disposing of the retired devices.
