IT asset disposition (ITAD)

Solution Guides

The secure and sustainable solution for retiring end-of-life assets

January 20, 20256  mins
securely dispose of it assets at end of life

Standardize your IT asset disposition with Iron Mountain's ITAD program. We provide IT departments with a streamlined and consistent end-of-life service that includes data destruction, remarketing, and recycling capabilities.

Our industry-leading secure chain of custody ensures data security, asset visibility, and provides comprehensive reporting. To support your organization's sustainability goals we provide an environmental benefits report that documents the carbon emission and eWaste reduction your ITAD program has provided.

With Iron Mountain, you can trust that the end of life for your IT assets is managed securely, efficiently, and in a sustainable manner.

Services

IT asset remarketing

  • Data bearing elements are sanitized or destroyed
  • Asset/components tested and refurbished
  • Maximized value recovery

Data destruction – bulk or serialized

  • Media, tapes and hard drives
  • Onsite (mobile) or offsite physical destruction

E-waste recycling

  • Shredded media, tapes or hard drives
  • Assets and/or components of no reusable value

Customer online portal*

Secure IT Asset Disposition - Secure Online Portal

* the secure online portal is available in select countries

Hardware asset management overview

As a global leader in hardware asset management, Iron Mountain delivers end-to-end solutions to support your IT asset lifecycle needs.

With our comprehensive services and solutions, you’ll get the most out of your workplace IT assets and create business efficiencies that allow you to focus more on your internal customers. Our services also support your sustainability goals by extending the life of your assets and demonstrating positive outcomes with our Environmental Benefits Report.

Common use cases

Devices covered: Computers, monitors, mice/keyboards/cables

Redeployment

Your ambition

Redeployment of devices and peripherals to new employees or advance exchange/repair for existing employees

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Iron Mountain’s solution

Storage, imaging, kitting, tagging, tracking, logistics, reporting

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Laptop retrieval

Your ambition

The secure, automated retrieval of employee laptops

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Iron Mountain’s solution

Sanitization, reverse logistics, tracking, reporting, storage, redeployment, EOL

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IT asset refresh

Your ambition

Deployment of new devices and retrieval of end-of-use devices during asset refresh cycles

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Iron Mountain’s solution

New hardware deployment, old hardware retrieval, tracking, reporting, EOL

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Lease returns

Your ambition

The retrieval, wiping and on-time return of leased equipment

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Iron Mountain’s solution

Reverse logistics, sanitization, device testing, cleaning, grading, financial scenario planning, on-time return to lessor

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End-of-use

Your ambition

Sanitization or physical destruction of data-bearing components followed by remarketing or e-waste recycling

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Iron Mountain’s solution

Certified data sanitization or destruction, global remarketing network, certified recycling 

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Iron Mountain’s hardware asset management