“Oh, great!” you lament as your hard drive crashes. With little to no advanced warning, you’re suddenly faced with the cold hard fact that it’s time to buy a new computer. But new computers are expensive. What about refurbished computers? Is that a viable option for you? Right now, you might be feeling both relief and frustration. You’re happy that you’ve been backing up your files. However, you feel sick to your stomach because spending money on a new computer right now was the last thing on your mind. Luckily, you remember you recently read this great blog about buying refurbished computers ..read more

If you’re planning a cloud migration, there is certainly a lot to consider. For example, what will you do with all of your old equipment? Should you unplug it and throw it all away? Whoa! Not so fast. You need a data center decommissioning strategy to dispose of your old IT gear.  Why? First, your old hardware potentially still holds confidential data. Second, throwing all of your old equipment in the garbage means it will inevitably end up in a landfill, polluting the environment.  Here are some guidelines for decommissioning your old hardware properly and securely while protectin ..read more

The verdict is in: Cloud environments are reliable, scalable, and offer high availability of applications and data. Has your organization already migrated to the cloud? If so, it may be time to think about what to do with all of that older IT gear and computers that are taking up storage space. Computer recycling provides a responsible way to dispose of your old equipment properly. Allowing your IT staff to toss out your old hardware in trash bins behind your building can have far-reaching, adverse consequences. Listed below are the top 3 benefits of using a reputable company to recycle your o ..read more

Saving lives through ethical reforestation   How planting trees saves lives and how you can help It is no secret that the effects of global deforestation have severely impacted our ability to recover from climate change, but there are more negative ramifications than appear on the surface. In addition to the average adult tree absorbing around 50 pounds of Carbon Dioxide a year, they also absorb other toxic airborne chemicals and particulates such as Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides, coming primarily from coal burning and automotive exhaust, respectively. Further, the trees we lose ..read more

Green Tree Electronic Recycling: Leading the Fight Against Electronic Waste. Electronic waste has been devastating our planet and health for decades. To date, an average of over one-hundred billion pounds of e-waste are generated each year. The United States is one of the largest contributors of e-waste, with the average United States’ citizen producing almost seventy pounds of e-waste annually. With only about one-eighth of all e-waste being properly recycled, the remaining e-waste is left to collect in junk yards or shipped overseas to rural areas of third world countries, where it is burn ..read more

Amid all the hoopla about climate change and lowering your carbon footprint, you might have found yourself wondering about the benefits of developing eco-friendly business practices within your organization. The fact is, there are many reasons why you might want to grow a greener business.  3 Benefits of Growing a Greener Business Environmental Benefits  The United Nations University (UNC) reported that by 2021 the annual e-waste accumulation would reach over 57 million tons worldwide. Gone are the days when IT manufacturers or third party support companies offer hardware repair for ..read more

IT Asset Recovery is a great way to turn something old into something new! Instead of tying your IT team up with outdated technology that doesn’t perform as well as your organization needs it to, you can identify the best available solutions to your networking challenges and find more profitable ways to dispose of the old technology. Depending on the size of the firm and their reliance on technology (and who isn’t, these days), IT asset investment recovery can save companies an average of $3 to $4 million annually. An asset management services company should be an important partner in your as ..read more

Too Great to Hesitate: Buy Refurbished! If you follow the trends, you probably already know. Buying refurbished technology is one of the hottest business and consumer trends going right now. This is true for lots of important reasons. If the refurbished market wasn’t heating up, there’s no way that the “big guys” like eBay and Amazon would be building big departments to take care of all the business they see waiting out there. From a sheer economics perspective, buying refurbished just makes good sense. You can literally buy ‘good-as-new’ technology for a fraction of what you’d have to pay if ..read more

Have you been thinking about whether or not you should purchase a refurbished computer?   Your indecision may be due to some bad information you’ve picked up along the way.  This blog will set you straight about reasons you can trust refurbished hardware! Myth #1.  Refurbished computers are slow and run poorly. Actually, as long as you work with a reliable refurbisher, your refurbished computer should be just as reliable as a new one, maybe even more so! For instance, a Microsoft partner ran a side-by-side test where users didn’t know the difference between the non-refurbi ..read more

“Oh, great!” you lament as your hard drive crashes. With little to no advanced warning, you’re suddenly faced with the cold hard fact that it’s time to buy a new computer. But new computers are expensive. What about refurbished computers? Is that a viable option for you? Right now, you might be feeling both relief and frustration. You’re happy that you’ve been backing up your files. However, you feel sick to your stomach because spending money on a new computer right now was the last thing on your mind. Luckily, you remember you recently read this great blog about buying refurbished computers ..read more