Your Year-End IT Disposition Has Four Deadlines, Not One
Year-end IT disposition isn’t one deadline — it’s four, and three of them are set by someone other than you. The usable window closes earlier than the year does.
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Guides and insights on refurbished enterprise servers, storage, and networking from the Vibrant team.
What to Ask Your ITAD Vendor: 21 Questions That Separate Good Answers From Good Marketing
Every ITAD vendor promises security, certification and responsible recycling. Learn which questions reveal what’s really happening to your data, assets, financial records and retired equipment.
The Drive Is Not the Server: Data-Bearing Components You're Probably Not Sanitizing
Wiping the drives doesn’t mean a retired server is clean. From management controllers and RAID cache to boot modules and TPMs, modern servers contain data-bearing components that many sanitization processes miss—and updated NIST guidance changes how organizations should approach them.
Chain of Custody Is a Finance Problem: What Auditors Actually Ask For When You Retire a Server
Every ITAD provider sells chain of custody as breach prevention. Your auditor cares for a different reason — equipment that left the building years ago and never left the books.
Your Retired Servers Appreciated: What the 2026 Memory Repricing Means for ITAD
DRAM contract prices roughly tripled in the first half of 2026, changing the value of retired servers. Here’s what the memory repricing means for ITAD, asset recovery, and redeployment.
"Are You NIST 800-88 Compliant?" Is Now the Wrong Question
NIST published SP 800-88 Revision 2 in September 2025 and withdrew Revision 1 the same day — but R2v3, the certification most enterprises use to vet ITAD vendors, still explains its data sanitization requirements by reference to the withdrawn version. Here's what that gap means for your contracts and certificates, and six questions that get you a real answer.
Refurbished vs. New Servers: What You're Actually Paying For
New server pricing carries a premium that has little to do with performance. Here's where the money actually goes — and when refurbished enterprise gear is the smarter buy.