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Industry developments in IT asset disposition, value recovery, and the secondary market — newest first, each with a short Cirkadis perspective.
Refresh Cycles Are Compressing — and That’s Money on the Floor
Cirkadis Take: When AI-driven refresh shrinks hardware lifecycles from five years to 18–36 months, the gear leaving the data center is younger, denser, and…
Read →Compliance Is Quietly Becoming the Biggest Driver of ITAD
Cirkadis Take: Value recovery gets the headlines, but the real forcing function in 2026 is the audit trail. As Scope 3 disclosure and SEC reporting…
Read →IEEE Std 2883-2022: What Your ITAD Strategy Is Missing
Your ITAD policy is probably built on an incomplete foundation — and your auditors will find it before your vendor does. Most data disposition…
Read →The RFP Is Not Paperwork — It’s How a Vendor Earns a Place in Your Program
Adding a new ITAD vendor without a formal RFP is not a shortcut. It’s an unreviewed liability entering your chain of custody. Fewer than 25% of…
Read →Your retired IT assets have a real market value. Your balance sheet has no idea what it is.
Most finance teams reach for the depreciated book value when hardware retires. That number is an accounting artifact — straight-line depreciation…
Read →AI Server Retirements Are About to Reshape the ITAD Market
Cirkadis Take: The first wave of GPU-dense AI servers from 2022–2023 is hitting its depreciation cliff, and the volume of still-valuable hardware coming off…
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