PC Retirement / Refresh

Green Practices, Increasing Sustainability

What Makes Used PC’s Green?

How do you keep used PCs out of the waste stream?

What are the greenest and best practices for retiring used PCs?

How do you increase sustainability?

Best Practices

Eliminate shipping to central locations Extend useful life Prepare your PCs for the next user Make them useful and saleable

Best Practice #1

Eliminate shipping PCs to a central location or intermediary– Unnecessary transportation results in carbon

emissions and additional costs.– Perform data erasure, diagnostics, audit, OS

restoration on-site, while PCs are still attached to the network

– Ship directly to next buyer

Best Practice #2

Extend the useful life of your PCs– Restore the Operating System– Do NOT remove the hard drive, wipe instead

Best Practice #3

Prepare your PCs for the next user: Proper data erasure

– Overwrite to a Department of Defense standard - DoD 5220-M

– Formatting disks is not a solution

Proper Operating System restoration– Return your PC to its original settings– Restore a valid Operating System

Best Practice #4

Make your PCs more saleable, useful– Wipe the hard drives prior to resale– Restore the Operating System– Have a diagnostic report ready– Have a complete list of features, part

numbers

Venderis Solution Suite

Venderis performs five critical functions that make used PCs green:– Discovery / Audit– Diagnostics– Backup– Erasure– OS restoration

Venderis Solution Suite

With several clicks of the mouse, Venderis creates 10 or 10,000 green PC systems, simultaneously.

Green Pays for Itself

By automating complex end-of-life processes, Venderis creates green PCs while at the same time increasing resale value.

Venderis Increases Resale Value

$ 80 per PC on average– By restoring Operating System– Performing Diagnostics– Hardware Audit– Elimination of third-party fees

Summary

Only Venderis gives organizations complete and secure control over the data residing on their PCs while automating complex end-of-life processes, increasing resale value, and creating green PCs!

Contact

Robert Davie

Venderis Founder

919-656-7142 (direct)