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Is Biodegradable the Next Step in Innovative Recycling?

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

Is Biodegradable the Next Step in Innovative Recycling?

As you may have heard, there have been some pretty big ups and downs in the wonderful world of recycling. Apple just announced that their future products will be made from 100% recycled materials. Fairphone started with laudable goals, but they recently tried and failed to corporately sustain their greener, fairer, […]

Filed Under: Recycling and Sustainability

10 Ways to Prevent a Data Breach, and 5 Things to Do if it Happens

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

10 Ways to Prevent a Data Breach, and 5 Things to Do if it Happens

Are you going to try to get past that?! According to a 2015 study by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, the average data breach now costs a total of $6.5 Million or about $217 per lost or stolen record. That’s a new record high, and the trend is definitively on the way up. So what can you do to prevent or (God forbid)  […]

Filed Under: Data Security

Why Certificates of Destruction Don’t Matter for Data Sanitization

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

Why Certificates of Destruction Don’t Matter for Data Sanitization

Around here, we pride ourselves on effective data sanitization. We are a member of NAID, and we built our own accredited data erasure software to make it happen. Sanitization is the bedrock of a strong ITAD strategy and the primary risk-mitigator on hardware that has aged out of regular use. Should you trust […]

Filed Under: Data Security

What to do Before your Hard-drive “Walks” Away

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

What to do Before your Hard-drive “Walks” Away

Accidents happen. Sometimes you leave an external drive at the coffee shop or you absentmindedly put your laptop into your checked luggage and it “walks” away. Or sometimes you hand equipment over to a recycler, like the Canadian military did, and it’s not securely wiped before it’s resold to someone who knows how to […]

Filed Under: Data Security

BYOD vs. COPE: What is the Actual Cost of Device Security?

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

BYOD vs. COPE: What is the Actual Cost of Device Security?

Coined by Intel in 2009 when their employees insisted on bringing their personal devices to work, the term “BYOD” (bring your own device) didn’t come into full prominence until the year 2012 as other corporations also began to recognize the benefits. Not only did BYOD allow employees to further customize their work […]

Filed Under: Data Security

How Zynga Took on a Challenging Data Destruction…and Won

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

How Zynga Took on a Challenging Data Destruction…and Won

Zynga was at it again. Times had changed, and they needed to change with them. Back in 2009 in an effort to curb excess technology spending, Zynga made the decision to migrate partially out of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and onto a hybrid cloud powered by CloudStack. However, when you grow like Zynga has things tend to […]

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There and Back Again: Reverse Logistics Alone Won’t Work

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

There and Back Again: Reverse Logistics Alone Won’t Work

Since their foundation, logistics companies have delivered from manufacturers to distributors to customers. They honed the process and streamlined it into a (transportation) science. UPS, for example, became famous for their “no left turns” policy1. But for a long time traditional logistics nursed a growing problem. […]

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Risk Assessment: 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Your Next Decom

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

Risk Assessment: 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Your Next Decom

Upgrading equipment, decommissioning apps, or migrating to a new data center can be a risky time in any IT lifecycle, and when you’re decommissioning hardware and moving on you need to be prepared. We’ve done a few of these in our time, so we’ve pulled together a couple of questions to help you navigate the choppy […]

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How to Meet Your Procurement Goals with ITAD

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

How to Meet Your Procurement Goals with ITAD

Procurement is a tough gig. You have pressures from all sides. From your suppliers who are trying to creep costs up over time to stakeholders who demand an increasing speed of business to management who wants to cut costs as far as possible. You’re more than a buyer of things, and it’s time to prove it.

Filed Under: Services

ITAD at the Bleeding Edge: High-Frequency Trading

December 6, 2019 by Apto Solutions

ITAD at the Bleeding Edge: High-Frequency Trading

Think ITAD is just for old, out-of-date hardware? Think again. The high-frequency trading industry it renowned for it’s cutting edge technology improvements. They helped ditch fiber and move to microwave to increase the bandwidth and reduce latency between New York and Chicago. The speed of light1 wasn’t fast enough […]

Filed Under: Services

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