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The IT asset refresh process is essential for businesses to ensure their technology is up-to-date and secure when collecting and disposing of retired equipment.

June 2, 20236 mins
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The IT asset refresh process is essential for businesses to ensure their technology is up-to-date and secure when collecting and disposing of retired equipment. By establishing reliable asset refresh processes, businesses can maximize their IT asset investment, guarantee data security, and support sustainability goals.

Your objectives

With a focus on creating operational efficiencies, you want to maximize the value and ROI of IT assets and reduce maintenance costs, all while ensuring data security with your devices. You also want to improve the reliability and performance of IT assets by ensuring hardware is always up to date. Lastly, sustainability is a business priority, and you need a sustainable process to reduce the environmental impact of your IT assets.

Iron Mountain's IT asset refresh service can support these objectives while also helping you optimize business efficiency. We provide a comprehensive approach to asset management, from the secure disposal of outdated equipment to the deployment of new hardware.

Our IT asset disposition (ITAD) service ensures the security of your data through our industry-leading secure chain of custody. Additionally, we provide data sanitization and destruction capabilities that are supported by a certificate of destruction, providing evidence that all data-bearing media has been destroyed.

We also help you reduce your environmental footprint by using sustainable best practices, proven in your Environmental Benefits Report, which shows the reduction in greenhouse gasses and landfill waste.

With Iron Mountain, you can optimize your IT investment while ensuring a seamless deployment of new IT assets while replacing retired assets.

Our services

Iron Mountain's IT asset refresh service is an integrated program management solution that provides end-to-end support for IT asset refresh projects. Our service includes retired hardware removal, new hardware deployment, and IT asset disposition.

Our team of experts can help you plan, manage, and execute your IT asset refresh project—on time and on budget—and we provide detailed reporting and tracking to ensure that all assets are properly accounted for. With Iron Mountain, you can trust that professionals are handling your IT asset refresh project.

Hardware asset management overview

As a global leader in hardware asset management, Iron Mountain delivers end-to-end solutions to support your IT asset lifecycle needs.

With our comprehensive services and solutions, you’ll get the most out of your workplace IT assets and create business efficiencies that allow you to focus more on your internal customers. Our services also support your sustainability goals by extending the life of your assets and demonstrating positive outcomes with our Environmental Benefits Report.

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IT asset refresh service provides:

  • Managed service to refresh assets

  • Centralized process to ensure technology is up-to-date and supports worker productivity

  • A process to reduce IT costs and increase efficiency


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Common use cases

Devices covered: Computers, monitors, mice/keyboards/cables

Redeployment

Your ambition

Redeployment of devices and peripherals to new employees or advance exchange/repair for existing employees

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Iron Mountain’s solution

Storage, imaging, kitting, tagging, tracking, logistics, reporting

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Laptop retrieval

Your ambition

The secure, automated retrieval of employee laptops

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Iron Mountain’s solution

Sanitization, reverse logistics, tracking, reporting, storage, redeployment, EOL

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IT asset refresh

Your ambition

Deployment of new devices and retrieval of end-of-use devices during asset refresh cycles

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Iron Mountain’s solution

New hardware deployment, old hardware retrieval, tracking, reporting, EOL

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Lease returns

Your ambition

The retrieval, wiping and on-time return of leased equipment

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Iron Mountain’s solution

Reverse logistics, sanitization, device testing, cleaning, grading, financial scenario planning, on-time return to lessor.

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End-of-use

Your ambition

Sanitization or physical destruction of data-bearing components followed by remarketing or e-waste recycling

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Iron Mountain’s solution

Certified data sanitization or destruction, global remarketing network, certified recycling 

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Iron Mountain’s hardware asset management

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Best in class data security

From transparent, traceable chains of custody and verifiable data erasure, we provide world-class logistics, global tracking, and certified decommissioning.

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Advanced sustainability

Promote sustainability by reducing e-waste, extending the life of an asset, and supporting responsible disposal and recycling practices, contributing to a cleaner environment and
more sustainable future.

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Maximize savings and ROI

Hardware asset management boosts savings and ROI by optimizing asset utilization, maintenance, and resource allocation while minimizing unnecessary purchases.

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Unmatched scale and reach

A trusted partner to more than 90% of the Fortune 1000 and some of the world’s largest hyperscalers, our decades of leadership, expertise, and global footprint are unmatched.

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