[ZeroSolstice]

Free pickup? at a secure data center?

Lets use some logic here. The disposal company is taking the cables with them to recycle them for the copper wire. Same with power cables.

[treve]

They're cables, someone can pick them up and move them somewhere else. Some more logic for ya

[ZeroSolstice]

Where? Should they drop them at a starbucks out front? Have an employee volunteer their home address? Put them out front at the office? How long should they hold onto the "free" cables that people are going to ask ridiculous questions such as "Do they work? When were they tested?" Are you going to force people to take all the cable or allow random selections? Are you going to waste the cost savings of moving to the cloud to have one of your tech people monitor requests for pickup? What if no one picks them up are you calling the recycler out again to pick up the cables you could have just given them?

Anyone who has posted "free" things online knows it comes a cost, thats the logic part I was referring too. When you work through the scenarios the "logical" conclusion is to give them to the recycler that you already have out at the datacenter for the systems you are decommissioning.