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Core service
IT asset recovery, run as one engagement.
A scope to agree, a collection to schedule, media to account for, value to assess and paperwork to close. AK Computer runs it as one engagement, with one point of contact.
Start here
Send an asset list, a CMDB export, or photographs. We reply with questions and a collection approach — not a sales call.
Request asset recovery
The problem
Hardware leaves the register long before it leaves the building.
In most organisations, retirement starts as a practical problem — a store room filling up, a floor that has to be cleared, a refresh that has already been signed off. It becomes a governance problem the moment someone asks where forty laptops went, and the honest answer is that nobody wrote it down.
The hard parts are rarely technical. They are the data-bearing drive nobody logged, the leased unit that should never have been collected, the collection that slipped because the goods lift was booked, and the disposal that cannot be evidenced when the auditor asks six months later.
AK Computer is built around those failure points rather than around the truck. Every stage produces a document, every document reconciles with the last, and nothing moves before the scope is agreed in writing.
- No collection without an agreed written scope
- Data-bearing media itemised separately, always
- Leased, warranty-bound and client-owned assets excluded up front
- Collections scheduled around your change window
- Documentation designed to be read months later
What you get
Six things that should be standard, and often are not.
Accountability, not just removal
A signed record of every item that left the building, reconciled against what arrived at our facility. The gap between those two lists is where most disposal goes wrong.
Residual value assessed, not assumed
Hardware with working life is identified before anything is routed to recycling. Where value exists, the commercial basis is agreed with you in advance.
Media handled to your instruction
Data-bearing media is itemised separately and handled exactly as your policy dictates — retained, removed before handover, or transferred under an agreed process.
One process across sites
A head office, three branches and a warehouse should not mean three different vendors and three kinds of paperwork. The same process runs across all of them.
Evidence your auditors accept
Scope, handover, assessment and disposition records are designed to be read months later by someone who was not there.
A straight answer about limits
If part of your scope needs a capability we do not have, we say so before you commit — and tell you what would be needed to meet it.
Asset coverage
What we recover
Six categories cover almost everything that comes off an enterprise estate. If what you have does not fit one of them, the last category exists for exactly that reason.
Data Centre InfrastructureWhole-room, row or rack-level retirement — planned around your change window.
- Full racks and rack enclosures
- Blade chassis and enclosures
- Rack PDUs and cable management
- UPS systems and battery cabinets
- 1U / 2U / 4U rack servers
- Tower and edge servers
- SAN and NAS arrays, JBOD shelves
- Disk and SSD carriers, tape libraries
- Core, distribution and access switches
- Routers and WAN edge devices
- Firewalls and security appliances
- Load balancers and optimisation appliances
- Business laptops and ultrabooks
- Desktops, small-form-factor and all-in-one PCs
- Monitors, docks and peripherals
- Workstations and design machines
- Multifunction printers and production print
- Scanners, plotters and label printers
- Telephony, conferencing and AV endpoints
- Displays, digital signage and video walls
- Surplus stock and never-deployed hardware
- Mixed store-room and warehouse clearances
- Legacy and end-of-support equipment
- Cabling, rails, brackets and spares
Process
Every engagement runs the same six stages.
- Step 01
Asset Discovery
Establish exactly what is being retired, and where it sits.
- Step 02
Collection & Logistics
Move the hardware off your floor without disrupting what stays.
- Step 03
Asset Assessment
Determine what still has working life, and what does not.
- Step 04
Data Security & Processing
Media handled the way you instruct, recorded line by line.
- Step 05
Reuse & Recovery
Keep working hardware working before it becomes material.
- Step 06
Responsible Recycling
Close out end-of-life material through accountable channels.
FAQ
Questions we are asked before the first call
- 01Do you buy IT assets, or charge for disposal?
- Both models exist, and which applies depends on what the assets are worth against the cost of collecting and processing them. A rack of recent servers and a pallet of fifteen-year-old CRT monitors sit at opposite ends of that spectrum. We assess the scope and tell you which way the commercial basis falls before you commit.
- 02What is the minimum volume you will collect?
- There is no fixed minimum, but very small quantities are usually better combined with a larger collection or handled alongside another engagement. Tell us what you have and we will tell you honestly whether a dedicated collection makes sense.
- 03Can you collect from multiple cities?
- We plan collections across India and coordinate multi-site programmes on a single schedule. Coverage for a specific location is confirmed at the scoping stage rather than assumed — we would rather tell you upfront than discover it later.
- 04Do you provide certificates of data destruction?
- Only where we can actually evidence the process behind the certificate. If your policy requires destruction to a named standard, raise it at the scoping stage and we will confirm in writing whether we can meet it, or recommend that media stays with you.
- 05What happens to assets you cannot reuse?
- They are routed to recycling channels we can name to you on request, handled in line with India's E-Waste (Management) Rules as they apply to the consignment. The disposition record shows which route each asset took.
Tell us what is being retired.
Asset category, rough volume, location and timeframe is enough to start. You can attach a list if you have one.