By: Glenn Laga, Founder & President, Guardian Data Destruction Whether your company boomed due to increased laptop and webcam sales for work-from-home zooming or impatiently waited for the safety “all clear” to re-energize your business, COVID has diverted the typical IT asset program. And, the upcoming Right to Repair act is going to add another layer of change. Guardian has pinpointed eight post-COVID market changes that will grow our relationships with ITADs, VARs, resellers and MSPs. Each prediction is followed by the services it will impact.
Any IT asset that holds data will require data destruction before recycling, redeployment or remarketing. 1. As workers remain offsite (perhaps permanently), physical office space will decrease. Or disappear completely as leases are rethought. Secure services like remote hard drive erasure, packing and secure logistics programs will be required for data destruction and asset retrieval. And, for offices that are downsized or just eliminated, full cleanouts of abandoned IT assets (desktops, servers, phone systems, copiers, printers, etc.) will need to be audited and processed.
Data destruction for obsolete or resellable equipment, data center operations knowledge as well as secure packing and logistics will all be in demand.
Printer, copier, auto, kiosk and point of sale devices will be included in the data destruction plan (erasure, degaussing, factory reset) before lease return or replacement.
Data destruction of private devices will be included as part of asset disposition.
Each cycle of ownership will require secure data sanitization to ensure that personal, proprietary and information aren’t inadvertently passed along to the wrong person.
With smart devices and distributed IT setups, secure data destruction and data center services (decommissioning, lift and shift) increase to include anything with a hard drive. How did we arrive at our predictions? We’re seeing a shift in work requests from ITADs, VARs, MSPs and resellers across the country. As confidence in worker safety has increased:
Conclusion What’s clear is that company management, HR, operations and IT departments are rethinking everything as they “catch up” after a forced, extended hiatus. The realization that the workplace environment is unlikely to resume pre-COVID configurations (on every level) means new strategies for workplace IT architecture and computing. As a result, a growing number of varied IT assets will need secure data destruction, packing and logistics before recycling, redeployment, decommissioning or remarketing. And new IT setups and upgraded equipment will be employed as companies worldwide respond to security, IoT devices and increased data storage needs. And global, viral pandemics. We’re interested in what you are seeing in the marketplace. Do you agree with these trends? How are you responding to your customers? If you’re interested in learning more about Guardian and how we support our channel partners, reach out.
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6/14/2024 12:07:23 am
I was amazed by your blog on post-pandemic projections for data security and IT asset management. It's quite instructive and offers useful insights into navigating these changing settings, particularly with impending reforms such as the Right to Repair Act. Keep up the excellent job!
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