ITAD, youTAD, weTAD

One may wonder why our colleague Max attended the ITAD summit in Arizona last month. Not because it seems wild to willingly spend a few days in burning hot Scottsdale in the middle of the summer but because ITAD is not necessarily a term we, as a company, associate ourselves with.

Ynvolve offers a range of services, including refurbished IT stacks, but are we an ITAD?

We’ll examine the fundamental definition of an ITAD. But whether we are an ITAD or not isn’t that important of a question to address, really. IT Asset Disposal (aka ITAD) services aim at repairing, refurbishing, repurposing, and recycling IT equipment that is no longer needed. It may be your daily devices, such as laptops or smartphones, or datacenter equipment, such as servers or switches.

Data erasure will usually be part of the process as security and avoiding data breaches is essential to any business.

We are talking about a market poised to double by 2030, reaching over 29 billion USD per Market Research Future¹

However, according to Gartner, too often, organizations don’t pay adequate attention to which ITAD services are most efficiently handled internally and which are best executed by an external ITAD service provider2.

This is where we come in and help! Good news, isn’t it?

By the definition given above, we might be considered an ITAD. We buy equipment back, we are Blancco certified, we give servers and switches a second life and we work with a local trusted recycling company to ensure nothing gets lost in the wild.

But at the end of the day, what we are or not doesn’t really matter. We coined the term circular system integrator for a reason. Because we prioritize meeting the specific IT needs of our clients (cost & performance), while keeping sustainability in mind, by leveraging a circular approach; and helping you apply circular principles to your infrastructure is a step towards making every organization an ITAD. A drop in the ocean, maybe, but as Lao Tzu once (might have) said, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”.

Some of you may handle their end-of-life equipment yourself, while others will use specialized companies. Ultimately, whether your IT stack is being reused or recycled, we and our planet Earth will benefit from no e-waste ending in landfills.