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08/11/04 - IBM Takes Asset Recovery Solutions Global
IBM today announced the global expansion of its Asset Recovery Solutions (ARS) program. Previously available only in the Americas, customers throughout the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Asia-Pacific regions will now have a secure, cost-effective way to retire the computer hardware they no longer need.
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17/08/04 - Old computers may never die; hard drive data should
Every year millions of computers sign off permanently. Just how many millions is unknown. The National Safety Council says more than 60 million home and business PCs went dark last year. And the Environmental Protection Agency figures that within the next five years 250 million PCs will become obsolete, ripe for replacement.
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04/06/04 - PC Disposal: Are You Exposed?
Robert Francis Group believes that enterprise PC sales will surge this year as companies replace aging equipment purchased
more than three years ago. Therefore, another side of the acquisition decision concerns the disposal of those PCs being replaced.
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20/11/03 - IBM expands leading IT asset recovery offering to small, medium businesses to help turn older PCs, servers and printers into cash
ARMONK, N.Y., November 20, 2003. . .IBM announced a new quick and cost-effective way for small and medium businesses to deal with selected IT systems and printers that they no longer need. Customers with a surplus of PC servers, notebooks, desktop PCs, laser printers and monitors now have an environmentally responsible way to deal with them.
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10/05/03 - Gartner analyst Frances O'Brien makes the case for PC disposal - and IGF
Want to help clients understand the importance of asset disposal within
the total cost of ownership (TCO) framework? Analyst Frances O'Brien
explains in her report that Gartner has expanded its base TCO model to
include asset disposal as a line item: "Implementing a systematic approach
for surplus and obsolete IT equipment, especially PCs, is one of those
problems that ..."eventually" must be tackled by all size companies." She adds that
"protecting the enterprise from risk versus capturing economic
opportunity, should be the main driver for formalizing a process for
disposal of equipment."
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24/04/03 - PC disposal strategies
Analyst Adam Braunstein published a report on PC Disposal Strategies stating "many enterprises overlook and/or underestimate the growing costs associated with the retiring and disposing of PCs. Increasing security and privacy concerns add complexity to the issue of PC disposal". The report also focuses on the growing data protection and environmental regulatory environment.
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