What a year this has been! Surely a year of “ups and downs” While cloud services continue to grow and put pressure on the traditional “on premise model” of data processing and communications, many of our members have found new ways to grow and prosper by offering their own cloud… Read More
by Mark Dobson There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about a data breaches. The theft and sale of stolen data, including personally identifying information (PII), corporations’ trade secrets, and world governments’ most embarrassing classified information has become both commonplace and lucrative. In fact, data is widely considered… Read More
ASCDI member DTC has announced that it has won a professional services contract with one of the world’s biggest telecommunications providers. The agreement focuses on a global regional program based around a resilient voice connectivity solution for customer premises equipment with additional network contingency in place. DTC says that the… Read More
“We have a slightly myopic viewpoint where we just focus on the physical asset, but what the clients are waking up to is, what about my data?”, says Steve Mellings of ADISA. In this podcast, Mellings discusses legacy habits from across the IT recycling community, where historically companies saw the… Read More
by Bob Losey, Source Data Products, ASCDI Member Blog Ever notice how our journey toward our goals may not be as easy as expected. Even so, the twist and turns we face are what make it worthwhile. Some of the greatest successes are by people who dared to fail. They… Read More
U.S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Office of IT Schedule 70 Contract Operations IT Schedule 70 RFI Response: Proposed SIN 132-4 and 132-9 Retirement I am President of AscdiNatd, the Association of Service and Computer Dealers International and the North American Association of Telecommunications Dealers, an international trade association… Read More
To: Office of the United States Trade Representative FROM: Joseph Marion, ASCDI President Docket Number USTR-2019-0012 Request for Comments to Compile the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers Submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov Submitted on: October 10, 2019 The Association of Service and Computer Dealers International… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal court ruling this week threatens the tactic of using license agreements to exert control over items such as cars, tech products and appliances. Thousands of everyday items, from autos to refrigerators, rely on embedded software in order to operate. Increasingly, manufacturers try to leverage this… Read More
Minnesota May Be First State To Pass A Right To Repair Law Fri, Apr 26th 2019 3:49pm — Karl Bode Minnesota appears poised to be the first state to pass “right to repair” legislation taking aim at corporate efforts to monopolize repair. You can find more at https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190424/08214342076/minnesota-may-be-first-state-to-pass-right-to-repair-law.shtml
Jon Toigo, a frequent presenter and participant at ASCDI events, passed away on February 12, 2019. Toigo died of natural causes, aged 59. Telecom Reseller and the ASCDI Now recently recorded a podcast with Toigo regarding data storage. Toigo routinely travelled and talked at industry events. Many ASCDI members knew… Read More