07/18/08 - IBM Recognized for its Green Recycling Practices by IT Analyst Firm IDC
ARMONK, NY - 18 Jul 2008: IBM Global Asset Recovery Services, the IT equipment renewal and recycling arm of IBM (NYSE: IBM), was recognized by leading IT analyst firm IDC as one of the first recipients of its Green Recycling and Asset Disposal for the Enterprise (G.R.A.D.E.) certification.
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05/10/07 - IBM Announces New Asset Recovery Offerings to Make it Easier for Data Center Owners To Turn In Old Technology and Go Green with New, More Energy-Efficient Solutions
Armonk, NY - 10 May 2007: IBM Global Financing (IGF) (NYSE: IBM) is today announcing a new set of asset recovery offerings as part of “The Project Big Green” campaign to help clients with less energy efficient data centers step up to greener technologies. The new suite of packaged offerings provides a focused, no-hassle approach for data center owners to upgrade to more energy-efficient technology.
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12/06/05 - IBM Global Asset Recovery Services to Receive the 2005 Chairman's Environmental Award
IBM Chairman Samuel J. Palmisano has announced that IBMs Global Asset Recovery Services (GARS) organization will receive the 2005 Chairman's Environmental Award in the competition among IBM's Systems & Technology, Research, Software, Services and Supply Chain organizations.
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10/01/05 - CIO Magazine, October 1, 2005, Scott Berinato "When the Bits Bite the Dust"
Asset disposition. Reverse logistics. Whatever you call it, getting rid of your old computers is more complicated than you might think.
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02/15/05 - IBM Building an Edge: Minimizing risk and cost in IT asset disposal
For industries worldwide, proper disposal of unwanted IT assets is fast becoming an issue confronting organizations of all sizes.
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11/24/04 - IBM Asset Recovery Solutions Goes Global, by Clipper Analyst Anne MacFarland
According to Clipper Analyst, Anne MacFarland, "With the escalating performance and environmental efficiencies of computers and related electronics equipment based on them, the plummeting costs of disk storage, and the new migration tools to help you move your data, there is every reason to retire older equipment, and remove the economic and risk factors to the enterprise."'
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11/17/04 - Robert Frances Group's Adam Braunstein's "PC Disposal: How Important Is It?"
In a recommendation from Adam Braunstein's report, "IT executives should evalute vendor PC disposal controls, processes, and third-party relationships to determine whether requirements for environmental responsibility, privacy, security, and waste reclamation are attained. Additionally, IT executives should scrutinize the process controls in place at recycling facilities due to tightening environmental and privacy legislation.
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11/08/04 - 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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08/17/04 - 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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06/04/04 - PC Disposal: Are You Exposed?
Robert Frances 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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11/20/03 - 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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04/24/03 - 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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