HP’s third quarter 2025 earnings delivered a stable financial performance, with 3% revenue growth and strong free cash flow. Behind the numbers, HP revealed stronger-than-expected PC sales driven by education demand, enterprise refresh cycles, and accelerating...
As the ITAD sector eased into the late-August slowdown, batteries stood out as the exception, driving the week’s most significant corporate and regulatory developments. And while most operators paused, earnings from hardware and semiconductor manufacturers are...
An analysis by David Daoud for Compliance Standards LLC: Our latest ITAD industry analysis shows the market is gaining momentum on strong demand and tight supply. The IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) market is experiencing a significant acceleration, primarily driven by...
Compliance Standards’ IntelliTAD rates the ITAD industry’s current state a solid 7 out of 10, reflecting a period of constructive, incremental strengthening. This positive score is driven by the significant mainstreaming of the secondary market, favorable...
Momentum Rating: 7/10. We evaluated the industry on a scale from 1 to 10. A rating of 1 describes an industry facing significant economic headwinds and systemic disruption. At the other extreme, a 10 depicts a sector at peak performance, characterized by substantial...
A critical disconnect is growing between the operational assurances offered by traditional ITAD certifications and the rigorous governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) demands of modern enterprises. While certifications like R2v3, e-Stewards, and NAID AAA are mainstays...
Download PDF Report Click here to download the full newsletter [clients only] Our Take In this second edition of the IntelliTAD newsletter from Compliance Standards LLC, for the week ending August 12, 2025, we reaffirm that enterprise refresh volumes remained high and...
In the fragmented IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) sector, two recent announcements highlight the sustained investor interest in the industry. The first is Achieve Capital announcing a strategic investment into Vantage Point ITAD, a move aimed at scaling a regional...
Amid an ongoing debate over the value of ITAD certifications and despite their importance, this report argues that the existing ITAD certification frameworks are not sufficient on their own to meet enterprise-grade risk, governance, and compliance expectations. While...
What we Spotted this Week The tech industry is undergoing rapid transformation, a move that is expected to affect adjacent sectors like ITAD and the behavior of users like IT management. Evidence of this rapid transformation is this past quarter’s leading tech...
This report is about how artificial intelligence is quietly but decisively transforming the way enterprises evaluate ITAD providers. Compliance Standards just concluded a survey of 400 US companies and found a substantial shift taking place in the way RFPs are...
With the advent of the online-first phase, businesses need to constantly ensure that their information is secure, that they are compliant with regulations, and that their stakeholder’ trust is not broken. Cyber-attacks and data breaches continue to grow, and...
We are publishing the Strategic Alignment Report – Mid-2025, a practical executive guide for ITAD leaders navigating cybersecurity demands, ESG pressure, secondary market growth, and global expansion. The guide offers: -9 Strategic Imperatives-CEO Metrics & Action...
Research: The first half of 2025 didn’t bring a boom or a bust—but it may prove to be an ITAD industry’s pivotal moment. While enterprise clients recalibrated budgets and extended refresh cycles under geopolitical, regulatory, and AI-related pressures, top ITAD...
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...
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...
ERI’s 2024 Impact Report offers a detailed look at the company’s role in environmental IT and secure asset disposition. Despite being a privately-held business, ERI set out to be more transparent, making it one of the few ITAD and material recovery companies...
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...
Despite big leaps in technology—AI chips, smarter performance, better battery life—consumers remain distant from AI PCs. Sales from major brands like Dell and HP continue to stall, and it’s becoming clear that the average buyer isn’t convinced the latest features are...
I recently moderated a session at REMA 2025 in San Diego with Samsung Electronics’ sustainability leaders, Daniel Araujo and Jenni Chun. It was a great conversation about what one of the world’s biggest technology companies is doing to make sustainability...
So I spent some time researching how Hitachi Digital Services runs its business—specifically through the lens of sustainability—and I have to say, I came away impressed with what the company does and how it does it. Sustainability shows up in the work itself: in the...
By David Daoud: The rise of hyperscale data centers has redrawn the boundaries of the ITAD industry. For companies in the business of decommissioning, reselling, and recycling retired IT hardware, the most important clients are no longer Fortune 1000 banks,...
By David Daoud: We spent some time looking at the latest generation of computing devices and how the embedding of AI could drastically reshape the risk profile of corporate IT departments. The new systems that are about to replace the PCs, systems that we’ve known for...
The effects of the new U.S. tariffs on imported technology have been felt immediately with the stock market negatively reacting to sweeping tariffs that many expect would result in a global downturn. Almost all media outlets and economists agree that the tariffs will...
By David Daoud: In my decades covering the PC industry, I have never seen anything resembling what is taking place today, thanks to the ongoing escalation in the tariff war initiated by Washington. Late last year and early this year, the industry began to sense a...
Setting aside the unfolding tariff war drama and its impact on a large swaths of industries, including ITAD, a new generation of AI-capable laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers will hit the market this year, albeit at a slower pace than expected, promising to...
A new generation of computers is beginning to hit the market. Profiling them suggests that we should expect a profound reshaping of the enterprise hardware landscape to take place in the months and years to come. The technological advancements that have emerged over...
By David Daoud: The recycling and IT asset disposition (ITAD) industries are undergoing a critical transformation, driven by market pressures, regulatory challenges, and shifting business models. While these sectors have always been the subject of acquisitions and...
Summary: Ingram Micro’s latest 4Q2024 earnings call confirms the company’s focus on higher-margin businesses like cloud, digital solutions, and AI-powered automation. And while it continues to offer ITAD services, we are not likely to see an aggressive push in ITAD....
