Whether you’re a property manager, an IT or data center manager, a lessor, or a liquidation manager, when your company charges you with disposition of physical IT assets, there’s little room for error. Because of the unplanned and chaotic nature of the situations that call for IT asset disposition, you’re often up against a hard [...]
10 Years of Doing it Right
This post was written by Adam, a Denver based computer technician at LifeSpan. 10 years ago, Lifespan founder Dag Adamson saw an opportunity for a business. At his former web development company, he saw new electronic devices being produced and purchased at a lightning clip, and the trend was only growing. Products were cycling quickly [...]
Zen and the Art of Electronic Data Destruction
By Guest Blogger – Bob Johnson, CEO of NAID (National Association for Information Destruction) My apologies to the authors of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” and “Zen and the Art of Archery” but I think they would probably believe a “Zen” approach to protecting data on recycled electronic media makes as much sense, [...]
Major Data Breach Results in California State Court Lawsuit: HIPAA & HITECH Act
In this blog post, Jonathan P. Tomes reported: Sutter Health of California suffered the theft of a computer containing health information on 4.2 million patients. A Sacramento law firm filed a class action lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court on November 21, 2011, seeking $1,000 per patient plus attorney’s fees and costs. The data consisted of [...]
It is about Logistics!
80% of the financial conversations I have with companies interested in IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) services surround the following: What is the cost for electronics recycling? What are you going to pay me for this equipment? What do you charge for data destruction and auditing? But the other 20% of people “in the know” include [...]
Profit vs. Peril for Lessors – Remarketing IT Assets
Minimizing the risks of remarketing IT assets in today’s world Under today’s state and federal laws it doesn’t matter how strong the return provisions are in your lease documents regarding data sanitization and/or data destruction from hard drives. You can still be liable. These laws encompass anything with a hard drive – PC’s, laptops, servers [...]
Electronics Recycling and International Trade
Tuesday (May 15) I testified at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) at a hearing regarding “Used Electronic Products: An Examination of U.S. Exports”. As a result of a request from the U.S. Trade Representative, the USITC was seeking industry expert testimony about the electronics recycling / I.T. Asset Disposition industry and its effect on [...]
Security Challenges of Solid State Device (SSD) Hard Drives in the Enterprise
In 2011, University of California San Diego (UCSD) researchers released a series of white papers revealing the security flaws found in solid state drives. These whitepapers discuss how, in the race for hard drive OEM’s to get new solid state devices to market, OEM’s haven’t all abided by security protocols set forth by industry standards [...]
Hold a Successful Employee Recycling Event
Corporate electronics recycling events can help build a sense of community, sustainability, and cultural focus with your employees if done the appropriate way. On the other hand, they can be a drain on resources and dollars if poorly executed. Having participated in a few from both sides of the equation, successful events boil down to [...]
LifeSpan supports Colorado E-Waste Law Signed April 20
LifeSpan's Matt Hansen, far right, looks on as Governor Hickenlooper signs the bill. LifeSpan’s Environmental, Health & Safety Manager Matt Hansen joined other industry leaders in Colorado as Governor John Hickenlooper signed into law a ban on disposing of electronic waste in landfills. Colorado joins 17 other states with such a ban. Despite the proliferation [...]
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