Even as modern enterprises choose to migrate some of their IT infrastructure to the cloud or consolidate onto high-efficiency servers or with virtualization technology (or both), they’re not giving up entirely on their existing data center assets. Many companies are going with a hybrid model for their IT infrastructure, incorporating cloud and virtualization elements with …
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Anytime you upgrade the storage and networking equipment that comprises one of your company’s data centers you have to make a decision about what to do with the old equipment. Data center management teams are facing that decision more and more frequently as companies migrate their applications to the cloud or choose to consolidate onto …
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When a company chooses to move its applications to the cloud or consolidate a data center using virtualization and the latest energy-efficient server technology, the equipment previously used at the data center for storage and networking usually retired. What becomes of these retired IT assets? Hopefully, they’re recycled or resold. New technology and cloud services …
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Empowered by advances in server and virtualization technology, as well as more secure and flexible cloud service offerings, more and more companies are choosing to move their applications to lower-cost, more energy-efficient systems, or entirely to the cloud. Cloud migration has become an especially prevalent trend, as companies discover the greater flexibility and easier IT …
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One of the most significant risks facing corporate organizations today is that of a data breach. When secure data gets into the wrong hands – either by accident or through nefarious forces – it can hurt a company financially; damage its reputation with customers, potential customers, and the general public; and threaten its compliance status …
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Your organization tries to be as free from risk as possible. Uncertainty can affect a company’s bottom line and its business objectives, so identifying its sources and planning strategies to minimize their impact is a key best practice. IT asset disposition (ITAD) – the procedure your company uses to dispose of its retired IT equipment …
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Almost every corporate organization has to comply in some way with regulatory standards. The requirements vary by industry, but regulatory compliance is one of the major areas at which companies must look when creating risk management policy. For those planning for risk through their company’s IT processes, a major regulatory concern is data security. Generally, …
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Unsecured data can be a very major source of risk for your organization. Because of the potentially astronomical costs that can be associated with even a single data breach from fines, legal fees, bad publicity, and loss of customer confidence, risk management and data security policy makers are looking closely at the ways their companies’ …
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Is your organization’s IT asset disposition (ITAD) program risk proof? Environmental compliance is one of the areas in which your ITAD program can be a hidden source of risk. Your company’s environmental concerns stem from the government regulations with which it must comply as well as its own culture of environmental stewardship and sustainability. If …
Those who are aligning their company’s IT policies with its overall risk management strategy can’t overlook its IT asset disposition (ITAD) program – how IT equipment is handled at the end of its life cycle. Lurking within a company’s ITAD program are chances for data breach, non-compliance with industry regulations, and environmental violation. All of …
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