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Iron Mountain reported exceptional Q4 2025 results for its Asset Lifecycle Management business, with 70% total revenue growth, 56% organic growth, and guidance projecting $850 million in 2026 ALM revenue. The company added 90 Fortune 1000 customers year-over-year and...
Return-to-office mandates represent a delayed but material disruption to enterprise IT asset lifecycles. The shift is driven by workforce policy rather than technology change and is unfolding unevenly across sectors. New data shows that RTO pressure coincides with...
Just as the end of Windows 10 support triggered an unusually high PC refresh cycle, Microsoft's decision to end legacy printer driver support in Windows 11 will force enterprises to retire functional hardware and create predictable volume surges for ITAD providers...
Technical debt has moved from a back‑office IT issue to a board‑level business problem, as legacy systems now drive customer churn, block AI programs, and consume a growing share of tech budgets. This report shows ITAD providers how to turn that pressure into revenue by positioning decommissioning as a modernization enabler rather than an end‑of‑life afterthought, mapping sector‑specific refresh waves in banking, telecom, retail, logistics, and more into concrete decommissioning pipelines. It also includes an executive snapshot quantifying the client upside (run‑rate savings, outage reduction, AI acceleration, ESG gains) and a detailed go‑to‑market guide that helps ITADs frame technical debt in business terms, win a seat at the refresh table, and productize offers like technical‑debt assessments, modernization‑linked playbooks, and AI‑readiness exit plans.
Recent policy signals from the U.S. administration indicate a period of heightened tension, driven by trade uncertainty, industrial policy intervention, and geopolitical leverage affecting technology, materials, and cross-border supply chains. This posture has become...
Sage Sustainable Electronics' 2026 benchmarking report reveals a secondary IT market in transition, driven by artificial intelligence infrastructure demand and constrained semiconductor supply chains. Server resale values have reached historic highs—approximately 2.5...
Recent announcements indicate that Mitsubishi Materials has agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in Elemental Group’s US e-waste platform, which operates through Colt Recycling. The transaction reflects a broader trend in which large metals and materials groups are seeking closer integration with upstream electronics recycling and pre-processing operations as part of their circular-economy strategies. A more detailed assessment of the strategic implications, execution risks, and what this transaction signals for the evolving relationship between IT asset disposition and metals recovery is available to subscribers.
2025 marked a transition point for IT Asset Disposition and electronics recycling. Multiple forces that had been building over several years converged within a single operating cycle, changing not only volumes and asset flows, but the fundamental expectations placed on ITAD providers.
As the ITAD and electronics recycling sectors move into 2026, the outlook is about how structural change will be uneven and how its consequences will be absorbed. In continuation with 2025, elevated asset volumes continue to move through the system, yet the conditions...
The latest U.S. labor data provides useful context for how enterprise technology environments are evolving, with some downstream implications for IT asset disposition and electronic recycling. In November, the U.S. economy added 64,000 jobs. Total employment reached...
The U.S. data center landscape is shifting from a historically concentrated model anchored in Northern Virginia toward a multi-regional grid of hyperscale, AI-compute, and colocation campuses extending across the Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, and Mountain West. This...
Dell’s Q3 FY2026 earnings call offers a very clear, financially grounded story for end‑of‑life IT asset management providers and remarketing companies, but it is also a highly curated narrative focused on AI‑led growth and margin resilience. Dell positions itself as...
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