Recent findings: 72% of IT directors are increasingly concerned about potential legal issues of not disposing of IT hardware + data properly. More than three in five expect to spend more on data erasure and hardware disposal in 2021.

Digital transformation, which is driving cloud and mobile adoption, is creating a tremendous shift in risk posture, exposing new security blindspots for every organization as a result.

Investor interest remains high for digital infrastructure, even amid the COVID-19 crisis, which has accelerated some activity. Amidst economic chaos from lockdowns, leading players are closing deals and raising capital.

As Corporate Data Centers quickly become dinosaurs (1.2 million are expected to close by 2021 (Computerworld), COVID-19 is helping businesses codify and clarify their digital transformation strategies. With the increased popularity of both Third-Party and Hyperscale offerings, the pandemic is shedding more light on their respective advantages and limitations.

COVID-19 has reinforced the importance of data centers. The digital transformation that was thought to be a multi-year evolution has been dramatically compressed - a watershed event for the world and a defining moment for the cloud.
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ITAD and recycling operations are largely falling into the category of essential services amid the coronavirus pandemic and the electronics recovery business is escaping widespread regulations affecting other companies.

Figure8 Onsite, a leader in IT decommission lifecycle solutions, has launched an initiative to help U.S. educational institutions and not-for-profit organizations immediately source refurbished work-from-home (WFH) technology at discounted prices in the wake of the COVID-19 mandates.

Data center operators are taking steps to ensure continued operations of their facilities in the wake of heightened concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.

As more businesses and universities move their daily operations online, data centers will provide the backbone for increased usage of VPNs and online video, underscoring the critical nature of digital infrastructure.

Data breaches generally lead to huge losses in terms of money. When an IT asset is out for disposition, it is necessary of the organization to make sure that the data inside the asset is either destroyed or moved to another location.

The adoption of circular practices in the IT realm can enable businesses to maximize their assets, keep equipment in use longer, and unlock value that can be reinvested in new technologies.

A new study shows that while the amount of computing done in data centers increased by about 550 percent between 2010 and 2018, the amount of energy consumed by data centers only grew by six percent during the same time period.

Digital Transformation creates the largest risk to any organization: the retirement of data center hardware. Sitting on the hard drives of this gear are customer records, proprietary software, financial records and more. And though this risk seems obvious, there has been inertia built over the last two decades to treat hardware/data retirement simply as a trash exercise. In fact, when companies unplug this hardware, the risk begins in earnest.

Complete infrastructure life cycle management that includes secure IT asset disposition (ITAD) and third-party maintenance (TPM) can help you maximize value at every stage of your technology investment.

Data privacy, security and sanitation are high-profile issues for enterprises across the globe. How is your organization pivoting to meet expectations and requirements while your IT infrastructure evolves?

The XpertHR survey found that cyber breaches that gave intruders access to employees' personal information or other confidential information is a top concern in 2020, with 29.8% of HR professionals reporting feeling extremely challenged in preventing cyber breaches and maintaining data security.

It’s essential that appropriate procedures be followed to properly decommission equipment – test, wipe, reformat, and when necessary, destroy drives to ensure the highest level of security and keep customer data safe.

Data management solutions are modernizing furiously to keep pace with new analytics, data usage, emerging technologies, and business innovations.

After the first year of mandatory data breach reporting in Canada, it has become clear that lost or stolen records and devices account for a sizeable percentage of breaches.

Starting Nov. 1, 2018, Canada began requiring businesses to report to the federal government breaches of personal information when there is “real risk of significant harm.” A year later, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) reported on some early takeaways from the breach notifications.

Overall, the OPC received 680 breach reports since Nov. 1, 2018, six times the number from the same period the year before, when reporting was voluntary. Breaches fell into the following categories:

It’s been an information con job. Companies lulled us into thinking we were simply connecting with our friends, finding our way around town, or locating the perfect sweater. While we were extolling the virtues of each new digital tool and talking up the latest apps to each other, companies were building a multi-billion dollar war chest of information to use against us. As the saying goes, “you are the product.”

A security researcher has found customer and employee data belonging to one of Canada's biggest PC hardware retailers on servers put up for sale on Craigslist. The data, believed to go back as far as 15 years, belongs to NCIX, a PC retailer that filed for bankruptcy and closed shop in December 2017.