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No Words are as Effective as a Rightly Timed Pause

During the past five-and-a-half years, the Redemtech company blog has operated like a perpetual motion machine, consuming latent energy stemming from a vastly churning and changing IT asset management and disposition industry, while plugging along with topical content that has kept readers informed, enlightened, and, in some cases, amused.

Help Convert Surplus to Success Through PC Pledge 100

Yesterday was a great day for kids who need computers – and for Redemtech. We joined Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski at a press conference in Washington D.C. to launch PC Pledge 100, a campaign designed to rally companies to convert surplus into success by donating at least 100 gently used PCs each year to Connect2Compete (C2C), a nationwide effort to improve digital literacy in low-income communities. You can watch a recording of the press announcement here.

Consumerization or Chaos?

As a former IT asset manager, I always cringe when I hear the term consumerization.  Back in September, when I wrote about BYOD, I called out my concerns with this trend toward consumers purchasing devices they’re also using in the workplace. Since then, however, it’s become quite clear that BYOD is no mere trend.

E-Stewards Subsumes R2 – Why?

Effective March 1, 2012, certification to become an e-Stewards recycler will automatically qualify a recycler as R2 as well. Since the roll-out of the e-Stewards certification in 2010, detailed side-by-side comparisons have obfuscated the fundamental differences in the e-waste recycling standards. Hopefully this step will help clarify the situation. Now, when recyclers become e-Stewards recyclers, they can put a check next to R2 certified and focus on what they do that plain ole R2 recyclers do not. Here are the major differentiators:

We Need to Make Recycling Part of the Product Creation Process

Gadolinium, praseodymium, cerium, samarium, lanthanum, neodymium. These  are just a few of the 17 elements known as rare earth metals. So what do these elements have to do with the flooding in Thailand? Are the current high prices based upon a natural disaster or because of the limited supplies of rare earth metals?

Natural Disasters: A Balancing Act for Business, Or a Lesson Learned?

About the only thing you can guarantee in the event of a natural disaster is that it will be accompanied by complete chaos.

Does Your Blade Server have an Afterlife or is it E-waste?

We’ve got some hot debate going internally and with our analyst friends in high places: Do organizations apply their IT asset management, disposition and security policies to assets leaving the data center? The analysts, for the most part, are saying, “No, when it comes to the data center, people do whatever they want to do.” Sometimes it’s a “send it back to the leasing provider,” but it’s often whatever the folks in the data center feel like at the time – their focus is on keeping things up, and when old stuff dies, they’re more concerned about getting it out of the way than in keeping track of it.

How to Support and Manage Your Acorns

Not long ago, I wrote about what it’s like to take a mere concept of asset management to a fully realized IT Asset Management program, likening the process to nature’s journey from an acorn to a mighty oak tree. But there’s one major difference. While nature generally provides all the support any oak tree ever needs, your ITAM program will fail without plenty of ongoing management support.

Can Corporate IT Adapt to the BYOD Trend?

Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, is one of the most intriguing trends in corporate IT today – and it has important implications for everyone involved in IT management, from procurement and finance to IT operations, security, IT asset management (ITAM) and sustainability officers. With the explosive growth of smartphones, iPads, netbooks and other consumer technologies, many companies are recognizing that policies that enable their employees to use their personal technology on the job can boost productivity and improve job satisfaction and efficiency.

Maybe It’s Time to Rethink Our Societal Economic Growth Metrics

With all this talk in the media lately about the possibility of a “double-dip recession”—that is, a return to hard times just as we thought we were climbing out of the last economic trough—I’ve lately begun thinking about how we perhaps need to begin rethinking our metrics as a society.