Various Aspects of Asset Disposal

1. Various Aspects of Asset Disposal The information and the IT equipment are the most vital and the essential element of any organisation. All of our activities are involved in the creation or either handling of the information in one form or the other. The IT Asset Disposal policies and the adjoining other policies are related to the management of secured disposal of IT products which are disowned by the companies. The main purpose of IT asset disposal is for establishing and defining the standards and the restrictions for the disposal of the non-lease IT equipment in a much more legalized manner with cost effectiveness. It is said instructed to discard the obsolete or the surplus IT assets and resources under proper laws and regulations with the help of appropriate external agents. Scope for ITS Asset Disposal The procedure of asset disposal is applicable to all the proper disposal of all non-leased hardware like PCs, monitor, router, switches, databases, servers, printers, handheld devices etc. The hardware which is owned by the colleges is beyond reasonable repair or reuse so they are covered under this procedure. Sometimes, alternative methods are applied which includes reselling, auctioning, reassignment or even donation.

2. Objectives of IT Asset Disposal Defining the responsibilities of the individuals for a secured disposition of the IT assets Providing a consistent and a rigorous process for ensuring and distributing the assets under the category of re-use, recycling or disposition. Providing advice on the appropriated methods for disposition of the physical media. Ensuring sensitive information to be backed up, copied or removed before disposal of the same. Ensuring a proper auditable trail of disposal or destruction of the assets evidenced. Decommissioning a server or the full retirement of a server is not at all an easy job. Often the old servers are poorly documented and are not update. This becomes the prime reason why the majority of the companies are reluctant not to turn off their old server system. However, the server decommissioning process has a large number of advantages as mentioned below: It helps in simplifying the environment It reduces the vulnerability of the old software and the obsolete operating systems It reduces maintenance and license costs It helps in lowering the facilities costs as well It resolves incidents in a very less effort It provides a faster ramp for new employees The company is a leading industry dealing with asset disposition and recovery in an environmentally friendly way. To know about us, mail us at info@oceantech.com or call us at 612-331-4456.