{"id":2947,"date":"2025-05-28T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2025-05-28T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:39:13","slug":"the-place-hyperscale-hardware-goes-to-retire-ars-visits-a-really-massive-itad-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"The place hyperscale {hardware} goes to retire: Ars visits a really massive ITAD web site"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“The largest threat is knowledge escape.”<\/p>\n

Eric Ingebretsen, chief industrial officer at SK TES<\/a>, an IT asset disposition supplier, tells me this early on throughout a tour of a 128,000-square-foot facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He’ll restate this a number of instances.<\/p>\n

An enormous a part of this web site’s pitch to its shoppers, together with the “hyperscale” clients with gigantic knowledge facilities close by, is that every machine is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives\u2014each apparent and hidden\u2014and is both securely wiped or destroyed. The method, generally referred to as ITAD (for “IT Asset Disposition”) is utilized by bigger companies, particularly once they improve fleets of servers or employees’ gadgets. ITAD suppliers guarantee all of the previous gear is cleaned, then resold, repurposed, recycled, or destroyed.<\/p>\n

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“The largest threat is knowledge escape.” Eric Ingebretsen, chief industrial officer at SK TES, an IT asset disposition supplier, tells me this early on throughout a tour of a 128,000-square-foot facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He’ll restate this a number of instances. An enormous a part of this web site’s pitch to its shoppers, together with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2840,98,2838,1656,2842,2839,2843,2841],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-ars","tag-big","tag-hardware","tag-hyperscale","tag-itad","tag-retire","tag-site","tag-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}