
ITAD for mobile devices: Three common data deletion misconceptions
This article has been contributed by Mark Dobson, ITAD Specialist at NextUse. ITAD for Mobile Devices When you’re about to retire dozens or hundreds of

Market Guide – IT Asset Disposal (ITAD) Providers
Appropriately enough for Halloween, October’s Market Guide looks at the end of the IT Asset lifecycle – disposition. IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) is concerned with

Market Guide – Mobile Device Management
June’s Market Guide looks at tools for Mobile Device Management. This is a market that has settled into maturity following a rapid growth phase as

Building stakeholder relationships with Service Desk and End User Computing
This article is the second of a four part series by AJ Witt of ITAM Review written in collaboration with ServiceNow’s Ryan Wood-Taylor & Peter

Market Guide – Secure Hard Drive Erasure
This month’s Market Guide looks at options for managing assets at the end of the ITAM lifecycle. A vital part of Retire is ensuring that

EU Directive extends useful life of servers and storage from 2020
Until recently the goal of EU “Ecodesign” directives was to focus on reducing energy consumption. Europeans have seen this in force on all sorts of

NIST Cyber Security Guide for ITAM
The USA’s National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) have published a Cyber Security Guide for ITAM. The publication was co-written with the National Cyber

Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Best Practice Survey
Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Best Practice Survey Following on from the recently published study into Hard Drive Disposal, I would now really appreciate your support

Seven types of missing hardware
Accurate hardware records are fundamental to a successful ITAM practice. We can’t save money on hardware and software or meet our governance goals with missing

Secret Diary of an IT Manager – The Importance of Managing Hardware Assets
We recently spoke about free ITAM tools, gathering all of our software licenses and starting physical software audits. That was back in October, and 5

The Importance of Effective HAM (Hardware Asset Management)
As we all know, there are huge savings to be made on software within an organisation through software asset management (SAM). But what about the

Verifying Asset Accuracy
A reader writes: “What is the industry standard way of calculating ITAM accuracy?” I’m not sure about the ‘industry standard’ way, but I’ll share techniques