This IDC study provides an assessment of IT asset disposal (ITAD) adoption in North America and Europe. IDC surveyed more than 1,000 organizations in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom to understand their thoughts, priorities, and concerns regarding the adoption of ITAD services, reporting the global findings in this study.

"The ITAD industry's current offerings, though new, resonate well in the commercial sector, where companies are working hard to protect themselves against all sorts of risks while reducing their own environmental footprint. The challenge, however, is that the current ITAD offerings are relatively new and companies are analyzing them to find ways to incorporate them into their management systems at a reasonable cost. IDC believes that over the next two years, the ITAD sector will be in a much stronger position to articulate its offerings as companies will be forced by regulation to focus on their own IT asset retirement," says David Daoud, research manager.