Vintage printers. Old PCs. Back-up tapes without the systems to read them. Out-of-date telephone systems. These were just a few "of the items that Greg Johnson found stored in what he called the graveyard room at his former employer. The dumping ground was on the same floor as executive management, who passed by it every day "It was the most equipment I had ever seen in the smallest physical space," Johnson says."It was using up premium office space." "I haven't worked anywhere since where I've allowed a graveyard to exist," he says. Johnson, who is now corporate director of operations centers at Baylor Healthcare System in Dallas, has helped to create an automated system within the IT department that monitors the life span of every piece of equipment.
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