Other World Computing today announced the acquisition of PowerON Services, Inc., a recognized leader in IT asset disposition (ITAD), trade-in, reverse logistics, refurbishment, and technology value recovery solutions.
Organizations are making massive investments in technology infrastructure at a time when innovation, especially around AI, is moving incredibly fast, and many are left wondering whether the systems and devices they already own can still keep up. The reality is, much of that technology still has tremendous value and capability left in it, but extending its life in a secure, efficient, and scalable way isn’t easy.
The PowerOn acquisition is an ideal enhancement to OWC’s SellYourMac.com, one of the world’s largest and most trusted purchasers and resellers of used Apple computers, iPhones, and iPads. Together, the three will ensure organizations have access to the best ways to upgrade, reuse, recover, deploy, and manage technology so they can save money, reduce complexity, remain agile, and keep more equipment out of landfills.
For more than three decades, PowerON Services, Inc. has remained at the forefront of the IT asset disposition (ITAD), trade-in, and electronics value recovery industry, delivering innovative take-back and reuse solutions to some of the world’s largest organizations. Founded in 1994, PowerON specializes in the movement, processing, refurbishment, and responsible recycling of used computing, mobile, and consumer electronic devices. Headquartered in Roseville, California, just outside Sacramento, the company operates a primary processing facility supported by a network of third-party partner facilities serving customers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. As part of the OWC family of companies, PowerOn’s operational and services footprint will be dramatically expanded across America and around the world. PowerON’s comprehensive service offerings include customized and turnkey product take-back programs, value recovery solutions, reuse strategies, reverse logistics, repair services, secure data destruction, recycling, de-manufacturing, and brand protection initiatives. The company’s leadership team brings more than 100 years of combined experience across the ITAD and trade-in industries, with expertise spanning global sales, software development, customer service, logistics, value forecasting, design, marketing, and data security. This collaborative and multidisciplinary approach enables PowerON to deliver world-class reuse and recycling solutions while helping clients maximize value recovery and support sustainability goals.
PowerON Industry Certifications and Recognition
PowerON maintains some of the industry’s highest operational and environmental standards through multiple internationally recognized certifications, including:
- ISO 9001:2015 Certified
- ISO 45001:2018 Certified
- ISO 14001:2015 Certified
- R2v3 Certified
PowerON has also earned significant recognition for its growth and environmental leadership, including:
- Seven-time recipient of the Inc. 5000 “Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in America” award
- Two-time honoree of the Sacramento Business Journal’s “Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies”
- Recipient of the 2011 Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) Award
Bringing PowerON into OWC brings together two companies that believe technology should last longer, deliver more value, and create less waste. By combining OWC’s world-class data storage, memory cards and readers, connectivity, expansion, software and apps, accessories, and services with PowerON’s take-back programs, ITAD services, reverse logistics, and value recovery experience and expertise, the two companies will enable customers to achieve a more complete technology lifecycle ecosystem built around smarter reuse, sustainability, and long-term ROI.
Deepgram Delivers Private Voice AI to Regulated Industries with On-Premises Deployments Powered by Fortanix Confidential AI and NVIDIA Confidential Computing
Posted in Commentary with tags Deepgram on June 1, 2026 by itnerdDeepgram and Fortanix today announced a partnership that will enable enterprises to run voice AI in their own environment on their own terms while ensuring their most sensitive data is securely protected. Under terms of the agreement, Deepgram can leverage Fortanix Confidential AI and NVIDIA Confidential Computing to add an additional layer of advanced security to self-hosted environments to ensure that its proprietary model weights, built on business-critical intellectual property, can be deployed while protecting against model theft or inappropriate use. With this announcement, Deepgram and Fortanix continue to raise the bar for model-in-use protection in the most security-sensitive on-prem environments, enabling increased voice AI adoption in highly regulated industries.
For enterprises, especially those in highly regulated industries, security requirements continue to tighten. Organizations handling patient conversations, financial transactions, or classified information increasingly require that sensitive audio and AI model weights remain protected not only at rest and in transit, but also during active processing in their own environments. This level of protection enables organizations to build highly-secure real-time voice applications without sacrificing on performance.
The on-premises solution runs Deepgram’s voice AI models with Fortanix Confidential AI on NVIDIA Confidential Computing-enabled GPUs, creating a hardware-isolated environment where both audio data and model weights remain encrypted and protected throughout active use. NVIDIA GPUs with Confidential Computing enable AI workloads to process sensitive data inside a trusted execution environment — a capability traditional infrastructure cannot provide. By bringing together best-in-class voice AI models, hardware-rooted isolation, and a jointly engineered, pre-integrated stack, the partnership delivers a level of in-use data protection that, until now, has not been practical to deploy at enterprise scale.
The Deepgram, Fortanix, and NVIDIA solution opens the door to a variety of on-prem security-demanding voice AI applications: private, on-prem voice agents handling sensitive customer and patient interactions; enterprise-wide transcription layers that capture every call, meeting, and internal conversation for analytics, compliance, and search; and voice-enabled IT, operations, and service desk applications running entirely inside an organization’s secure perimeter. For regulated enterprises, this turns voice into a production-ready interface without sacrificing the real-time performance the experience demands.
Deepgram’s voice AI models deliver the real-time voice understanding and generation with the accuracy, consistency, and low latency that enterprise use demands. Designed for any environment including those with the highest confidentiality and regulatory needs, Deepgram’s models bring voice AI to enterprise organizations across virtually every industry vertical, including those with sensitive, regulated use cases that have historically been out of reach.
Fortanix Confidential AI protects data and AI model weights while they’re actively running. It builds on NVIDIA GPUs with Confidential Computing to create Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) that isolate the AI workload from the underlying infrastructure and OS. Data and AI models run safely inside Confidential Computing, encrypted in memory, and inaccessible to the host operating system or even privileged administrators. As a result, regulated organizations can unlock AI innovation with trust, security, and sovereignty at the core, while meeting HIPAA, GDPR, and national-data residency requirements.
To learn more, please reach out to Deepgram at: partners@deepgram.com.
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