Iron Mountain secure ITAD analyst report

This analyst report from The ITAM Review analyses Iron Mountain’s Secure IT Asset Disposition (Secure ITAD) service in the IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) market. The ITAM Review is a global organisation that provides news, reviews and resources for ITAM, SAM and Licensing professionals. This report was published in Q1 of 2020.

Secure IT Asset Disposition (Secure ITAD) Benefits Noted In the Report Include:

1. Secure Chain of Custody
2. Local & Global Reach
3. Full Information Lifecycle Service Provider
4. Market Innovator & Leader

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Synopsis

This report analyses ’s Secure ITAD service offering in the IT AssetDisposition (ITAD) market. At we advocate an integrated,sustainable and responsible approach to ITAD as a key part of the overallasset lifecycle our readers manage. This report is based on analyst callswith Iron Mountain’s Secure ITAD team conducted in Q1 2020.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain are veterans in Information Management for organisationsworldwide, having been founded in 1951 with the aim of protecting vitalrecords for financial institutions. Through organic expansion they are nowthe worldwide leader in storage and information services, with over230,000 worldwide customers on 5 continents. Iron Mountain’s portfolioincludes;

These five product lines seek to address the physical and digitalinformation management needs of customers who need to comply withlegal and regulatory frameworks around information management,improve agility through digital transformation, and ensure that IT assetsare disposed of in the right way.

About IT Asset Disposition

IT Asset Disposition is a lifecycle stage in IT Asset Management primarilyconcerned with the end-of-life/end-of-service of an organisation’s physicalIT assets – computers, servers, mobile devices, and so on. Increasingly, andthis is the case with Iron Mountain’s Secure ITAD offering, ITAD is also concernedwith managing the entire lifecycle of the physical layer of an ITorganisation. Without managing the whole lifecycle, it isn’t possible tomanage the end. This is a concept familiar to IT Asset Managers whorealise that software and hardware asset management requires theirattention throughout the lifecycle from Request and Procurementthrough Deployment and Servicing and all the way to Retire. It’simportant to understand that ITAD is no longer just an end-of-lifeexercise.

Use Cases for IT Asset Disposition

Companies are motivated to manage IT Asset Disposition for thefollowing reasons:

In a recent survey of customers conducted by IDG on behalf of IronMountain C-Level executives listed Sustainability & Data Privacy as theirprimary motivators for managing IT Asset Disposition, closely followed byRegulatory Compliance & Cost Management.

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