Cascade experts and partners engage in thoughtful research to enrich best practices in the industry.  Our aim is to tell it like it is and to get past the conventional wisdom of how IT asset retirement is currently understood.  With over 1,000 corporate customers and hundreds of thousands of assets processed each year, we can leverage our experience and knowledge base so you don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

Read our White Papers for research into topics useful to our customers as they manage their IT Asset Retirement programs.

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• "The three pass data wipe requirement for hard drives is obsolete" . . . and why it takes the focus off the real security threats to an organization. December 2018


• "Tracking Separated Plastic Components from E-Scrap" - a poster by Purdue University Materials Engineering graduate student Michael Johnston with research support by Cascade, September 2013.


• Don’t Settle for Less: Resale Values from Retired IT Assets–  First Annual Update, May 2008
  
  
• What’s the Benefit? Understanding the implications of selling used computers to employees, March 2006
  
  
• Closing the Back Door:Managing IT Data Security During Disposal, April 2005