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Certificates of Destruction Don’t Matter for Data Sanitization – Here’s Why

December 6, 2019 by AptoSolutions

Certificates of Destruction Don’t Matter for Data Sanitization – Here’s Why

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 AptoSolutions

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 […]

Filed Under: Data Security

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

December 6, 2019 by AptoSolutions

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 […]

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How Zynga Took on a Challenging Data Destruction…and Won.

December 6, 2019 by AptoSolutions

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 […]

Filed Under: Case Study

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

December 6, 2019 by AptoSolutions

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 […]

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3 Important ITAD Considerations for your Next Cloud Migration

December 6, 2019 by AptoSolutions

3 Important ITAD Considerations for your Next Cloud Migration

Cloud Computing has been growing in the enterprise faster than kudzu in the spring, but that growth just scratches the surface. According to a January 2015 study by RightScale, 88% of enterprises use the public cloud in some form, but 68% of respondents admitted that less than one-fifth of their app portfolios […]

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

December 6, 2019 by AptoSolutions

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 questions to help you navigate the choppy […]

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Why Do We Need ITAD? It’s the Law.

December 6, 2019 by AptoSolutions

Why Do We Need ITAD? It’s the Law.

Where do electronics go when they die? Why do we send them there? Do all servers go to heaven? We will answer these questions and more in this series covering the basic ideas of IT Asset Disposition (ITAD). Each post will introduce (or reintroduce) tech specialists to the afterlife of IT from ‘how to’ to ‘have to’. […]

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How to Meet Your Procurement Goals with ITAD

December 6, 2019 by AptoSolutions

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 stake holders 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 AptoSolutions

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 […]

Filed Under: Services

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