ARCOA Group

07/16/2026

A standard factory reset on your retired IT assets still leaves your company's data recoverable.

Many IT teams operate under the assumption that decommissioned equipment is safe equipment, but a simple status change does not equal data destruction.

To achieve true security, retired hardware must undergo a certified, multi-layer destruction process, including overwriting with multiple patterns, cryptographic erasure, physical shredding, and degaussing. Each of these methods targets a completely different storage architecture.

Without a documented chain of custody tracking each serial number from the moment it leaves your facility, you have no proof and no protection during a hardware refresh.

Decommissioned is just a status. Destroyed is a guarantee. Swipe through to see the critical gaps in standard ITAD processes and how to secure your next refresh cycle.

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07/15/2026

07/14/2026

The Right to Repair movement has moved from advocacy to law. Five states, including California, New York, and Minnesota, now require manufacturers to make electronics repairable, and repair bills have been introduced in all 50 states. The direction is clear: devices are expected to last longer and stay in service.

That shift reinforces what responsible IT asset management has always been about — extending the useful life of equipment, repairing and refurbishing what can be reused, and retiring the rest securely and sustainably.

ARCOA helps organizations get more life and more value from their technology through Remarket, Recycle, and Relocate, with secure data destruction at every step.

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07/07/2026

Managing retired technology is moving from afterthought to standard practice. Gartner expects 70% of organizations to adopt a managed device lifecycle service by 2028, up from fewer than 35% in 2025, with data security and responsible recycling cited as the two biggest ITAD challenges.

The shift reflects a simple reality: handling IT from deployment through secure, compliant end-of-life is too complex and too risky to improvise. Leaders are turning to partners who can unify secure data destruction, asset tracking, remarketing, and recycling.

ARCOA delivers exactly that, helping organizations recover value and stay compliant across the full IT lifecycle through Remarket, Recycle, and Relocate.

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07/04/2026

This Independence Day, ARCOA Group celebrates the freedom and opportunity that make our work possible. Wishing you, your family, and your team a safe and happy 4th of July.

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07/02/2026

Retiring IT doesn't have to mean throwing value away. Reuse and remarketing extend the life of equipment that still has plenty to give, while cutting the significant carbon cost of manufacturing new hardware. Asset recovery programs can avoid tons of CO2 emissions and feed directly into the ESG and Scope 3 reporting that customers, investors, and regulators increasingly expect.

The circular path is straightforward: retire, secure pickup, certified data wipe, remarket and reuse, then responsibly recycle whatever's left. Every step keeps material out of the landfill and value in your business.

ARCOA helps organizations turn end-of-life IT into recovered value and measurable sustainability gains through Remarket, Recycle, and Relocate.

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06/30/2026

Reformatting a drive isn't the same as destroying the data on it. Blancco's 2026 State of Data Sanitization Report found that 32% of organizations that suffered a data leak traced it back to redeployed drives or devices that still held sensitive data. As enterprises retire AI-era servers and storage, the volume of at-risk hardware keeps growing.

The federal standard, NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 (2025), is clear that verified erasure or physical destruction is what makes data unrecoverable, not a quick wipe or reformat.

ARCOA provides secure, certified data destruction and responsible recycling, with full documentation, so retired IT can't become tomorrow's breach.

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06/25/2026

Decommissioning a data center is far more than unplugging racks and hauling them off. The real risk lives in everything that leaves the building: the data still on the drives, the chain of custody during transport, and the significant residual value sitting in equipment that is often treated as scrap.

Done well, decommissioning follows a disciplined path. Audit and inventory, secure data destruction, careful de-installation and logistics, remarketing and recycling, and certified reporting at the end. Skip a step and you expose the organization to data breaches, compliance gaps, and lost recovery value.

That is why IT asset disposition and data center decommissioning belong together, not as separate projects handed to separate vendors.

ARCOA manages the entire process under one secure chain of custody, from de-installation to certified end-of-life.

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06/23/2026

The five-year hardware refresh cycle is officially a thing of the past. AI workloads are forcing data centers to upgrade on 18-to-36-month timelines, and AI server shipments jumped 38 percent year over year. The result is a wave of decommissioned equipment hitting the market faster than most asset management plans were built to handle.

That acceleration is exactly why remarketing is now the fastest-growing segment of the ITAD industry, projected to expand at more than 10 percent annually through 2035. The hardware coming out of these refreshes still holds significant value, and organizations that plan for it recover far more than those treating disposal as an afterthought.

But speed cuts both ways. Faster turnover means more devices leaving your environment, and every one of them carries data that demands certified, compliant destruction before it can be resold or recycled.

ARCOA helps organizations keep pace, capturing residual value from retired IT while ensuring secure data destruction and responsible recycling at every step.

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06/21/2026

Happy Father's Day from all of us at ARCOA Group. Today we recognize the fathers, mentors, and role models who lead by example — at home and in the workplace. Wishing you a relaxing day with the people who matter most.