Research: The first half of 2025 didn’t bring a boom or a bust—but it may prove to be a pivotal moment for the ITAD industry. While enterprise clients recalibrated budgets and extended refresh cycles under geopolitical, regulatory, and AI-related pressures, top ITAD...
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Why the Healthcare Sector Shows Strongest ITAD Activity Among All Industries: Security, Compliance, and Strategic Shifts
Research: As ITAD demand patterns shift in 2025, one sector stands out—healthcare. In our mid-year analysis based on interviews with 37 ITAD executives and follow-up insights from hospital CIOs and CISOs, a clear theme has emerged: healthcare is leading the current IT...
Crypto Mining and the Secondary IT Hardware Market: A Volatile Force with Outsized Impact
In this special report, we analyze one of the most overlooked yet increasingly disruptive forces in the global secondary IT hardware market: cryptocurrency mining. The sector boasts a vast ecosystem of miner, ranging from individual hobbyists to industrial-scale data...
Lenovo’s Positive AI PC Momentum: Key Considerations for ITADs
I believe Lenovo is the first company to signal positive momentum in the AI PC sector on the front end. Most of the...
The Component Market Is Still Weak & Mid-Term Outlook Could Worsen Before Getting Better
In our initial read of the ITAD sector’s performance in the second quarter of 2024, we first assumed Iron Mountain’s...
Navigating New Climate Regulations: Impact on ITAD and Strategic Recommendations
By David Daoud Principal Analyst / Certified ESG Specialist Executive Overview With the rapidly deteriorating...
Will tech and economic downturn affect the ITAD sector?
By David Daoud: Earlier this week, HP Inc. was one of the latest tech companies to announce layoffs involving up to...
How acquisitions are fueling ITAD sector activity
By David Daoud: Over the past months, there has been a resurgence of activity fueling investments into the end of...
ITAD Vendor Reputation Rating: A Look at the Top-Rated Vendors
We spent the past two to three years looking at companies that are liked or disliked by their customers. This was not...
Outlook: A booming device market spells good news for the disposition and recycling sectors and for the second-hand market
Updated: 27 May 2021 - By David Daoud - Follow this link for the podcast version (MP3) The Covid-19 pandemic has had...
The ITAD Market: Surviving the 2020 Covid-19 Deep Freeze
By David Daoud: 24 March 2020: Although the coronavirus pandemic has created a Kafkian environment for ITAD companies,...
Arrow Exits ITAD Market: Reasons and Implications
You can listen to the analysis above or read the transcript above. You can also download the PDF version PDF file...
Why are so many retailers in breach of environmental laws and how the ITAD industry can help?
Many retailers continue to behave badly when it comes to their IT equipment and waste disposal practices. Proper...
As EU new data protection law looms, companies remain largely unprepared
By David Daoud: Effective May 25, 2018, Europe’s Data Protection Directive (DPD) will be phased out and will be...
ITAD in the Broad ITAM Context
Free access with registration: This podcast is a discussion between David Daoud and Barbara Scott, VP of Research and...
On ITAD Financing and One Potential Industry Scenario for the Future
There has been no shortage of interest in third-party funding of IT asset management (ITAM) companies over the past...
More than half of US enterprises don’t track their laptops, as 22% of the retired assets are missing
Compliance has been a key requirement driving enterprise IT asset disposition (ITAD), and is indeed a...
ITAD Sector Back to Square One: Presentation, Audio & Video
Free access with registration: This report is a transcript of a presentation made by Compliance Standards’ analyst...