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Unnecessary replacement of hardware leads to higher costs and growing waste problem

Wednesday October 30, 2024. 12:07 PM , from BetaNews
More than three quarters (77 percent) of IT decision makers say that their organization has a fixed time frame for replacing hardware. 14 percent replace every year, 30 percent every two years and 33 percent every three years. A survey of 400 US and UK decision makers from Scalable Software suggests this leads to unnecessary upgrades and increased costs and can also have a negative environmental impact. The 2024 UN Global E-Waste Monitor finds that the generation of e-waste worldwide is rising by 2.6 million tonnes annually, and is predicted to reach 82 million tonnes by 2030. 'There's no reason… [Continue Reading]
https://betanews.com/2024/10/30/unnecessary-replacement-of-hardware-leads-to-higher-costs-and-growin...

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