IT Asset Recovery: Fast Track Your Network's Financial Gain

As an IT professional, you’re familiar with the equipment graveyard present in many offices. Dusty old hardware, destined for the trash heap — eventually… 

Instead of creating an eyesore, you can maximize your equipment return on investment with IT asset recovery. It’s the easiest and most economical way to close the loop on your hardware’s lifecycle.

IT Asset Recovery: Turning End of Life into the Beginning of Savings

There are three routes IT departments can take when their hardware has reached end-of-life. They either trade it in to an OEM, donate it, or ewaste it themselves. There’s also the dreaded hardware graveyard we mentioned above. At that point, you’re just sitting on cash.

Turning your decommissioned hardware into upgraded technology doesn’t have to be as costly as it sounds. When you choose the IT asset recovery route, you can turn that upgrade into recovered cost.

By selling your hardware equipment to a reseller, you close the loop on your hardware’s lifecycle and get cash toward your upgrade. Alternatively, you can bank the trade for a later purchase, which keeps more money in your IT budget.

Benefits of IT Asset Disposal vs. IT Asset Recovery

Asset recovery is the process of obtaining old hardware from a company. When Edgeium collects hardware, some of it goes into our inventory, and some is ewasted, depending on viability. 

In adding working equipment to our inventory and selling it on the secondary market, we’re contributing to the circular economy by keeping it out of landfills and preventing new parts from having to be mined to build switches and computers.

Other asset recovery benefits include:

• Increases department budgets: By selling decommissioned hardware, you can keep money in your budget for high-ticket purchases.
• Promotes eco-friendly practices: Keeping electronic waste out of landfills promotes a healthier planet and helps reduce environmental impact.
• Supports data security and risk mitigation: An idle piece of equipment is a security risk to your organization. If someone takes it, they gain access to your files, sensitive data, etc., putting you and your department in a compromising position.
• Promotes data sanitization: We follow rigorous security protocols and confirm data deletion several times during the erasure process.

Market Overview for Used Cisco Equipment 

Undoubtedly, one of the biggest OEMs is Cisco, and people wonder how much money they can get back for old Cisco equipment. The truth is, it depends on the piece and age of equipment you’re trying to sell. Since it’s Cisco, it holds more value than others because there’s a larger market to sell back into. 

Regardless, Edgeium will always pay fair market value for your used IT hardware. You can choose a cash return or a credit toward future Edgeium hardware purchases. As an independent IT partner, Edgeium accepts and pays for hardware that most OEMs pass on.

Edgeium Makes IT Asset Recovery Easy

Edgeium is guaranteed to pay the most for your decommissioned hardware, and we pride ourselves on being the easiest to work with to sell them. Edgeium creates custom packaging based on the number of pieces you’re selling, complete with return labels. All you have to do is send it back. The ITAD process couldn’t be easier.

Have too much to manage? Edgeium will send a crew to inventory and return your assets. Ready to maximize your equipment ROI? Learn more about our asset recovery program here.