IT disposition for growing companies and enterprises
From a 20-person office clearing a storage room to an enterprise refreshing a thousand laptops, the problem is the same: get the equipment out, make sure the data is gone, and get something back for it.
Rules that apply to disposal
A summary for orientation, not legal advice. Your counsel or compliance officer defines what your policy requires.
- Ohio Data Protection Act (ORC 1354.01 to 1354.05)
- Gives businesses that maintain a written cybersecurity program conforming to a recognized framework an affirmative defense in certain data breach lawsuits. Documented media disposal is part of such a program.
- Ohio breach notification (ORC 1349.19)
- Requires notice to affected Ohio residents, generally within 45 days, when computerized personal information is compromised.
What corporate and enterprise clients get
- Refresh projects scheduled around your deployment
- Office closures and relocations
- Equipment from departed or remote employees
- Asset-list import from your inventory or MDM export
- NIST SP 800-88 sanitization or physical destruction, named per device
- Certificate and serialized report for every request
Equipment we collect
- Laptops, docks and desktops
- Monitors and peripherals
- Servers, storage and rack equipment
- Switches, firewalls and wireless gear
- Phones and tablets
Common situations
- A laptop refresh is under way
- Old laptops come back in waves as new ones are deployed. We collect on a schedule that matches the rollout, and recent business models usually return resale value.
- An office is closing or moving
- The lease sets the deadline. One collection clears desks, the server closet and the storage room, and you get a single report for the whole site.
- Employees work remotely or have left
- Laptops and phones sit in home offices with company data on them. Prepaid return kits bring them back from anywhere in the US, tracked per person.
Questions
What should we do before pickup?
Remove devices from your management tools, such as Intune or Autopilot, Apple Business Manager and Google Admin, and clear firmware passwords. A device that is still locked to your organization cannot be resold.
Do we get paid for old equipment?
It depends on age and condition. Recent business laptops, phones and network gear usually hold value. Older equipment is recycled. Your quote itemizes the offer by model.
Can you handle offices outside Ohio?
Yes. Ohio sites are collected by our team and other locations ship in by parcel or pallet. Everything appears on one report.
Related guides
- How to prepare for an IT equipment pickupA checklist for getting retired laptops, servers and phones ready for pickup: inventory, unlocking devices, separating drives and staging.
- How Ohio businesses should dispose of old computers and electronicsWhat Ohio organizations must know before discarding computers and drives: breach notification, the Ohio Data Protection Act and CRT rules.
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