Editorial standards

The guides on this site explain the physical side of moving, installing and protecting enterprise IT hardware. Each one is written to answer a specific question buyers ask, cites the primary standard or regulation behind its claims, carries a publication date and an updated date when it changes, and is corrected when a reader shows it is wrong.

Who writes the guides?

Articles are written by Nick Herrera, founder of CelebrityCMO, the agency that produces the DataTech Logistics blog. The author is named on every article, with a profile linking to everything he has published here. Topics come from the questions buyers actually search for, drawn from search data, so each guide is built around a question and opens with a direct answer before going into detail.

How are claims sourced?

Claims about standards and regulations link to the body that publishes them: NIST for media sanitization and contingency planning, the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations for transport and battery rules, NFPA for fire and electrical codes, ASHRAE TC 9.9 for equipment environments, FEMA for flood mapping, and the PCI Security Standards Council, AICPA, TAPA and CBP for custody and compliance frameworks. Links point to official sources, never to vendors or competitors. Figures without a verifiable source are left out rather than estimated, and planning ranges are labelled as rough guidance.

What do the guides cover, and what don't they?

DataTech Logistics provides physical logistics and installation for IT hardware. The guides say clearly where that work ends: data, software, configuration and system validation belong to the reader's own IT team or software vendors, and software wiping or cryptographic erasure is performed by a licensed contractor. The guides are general information, not legal, insurance or engineering advice. Where a decision needs a structural engineer, an insurer or counsel, the guide says so.

How are guides kept current?

Every article shows the date it was first published. When an article is revised, it also shows an updated date, and the previous version is archived. Guides are reviewed when the standards they cite change: for example, references to NIST SP 800-88 were moved to Revision 2 after it superseded Revision 1, and outdated penalty figures are replaced rather than left in place. The reference data page collects the rules and limits cited across the site, with the date they were last checked.

How do you report an error?

Email info@datatechlogistics.com with the page address and what is wrong, ideally with a source. Errors of fact are corrected and the article's updated date changes. If a correction changes the substance of an answer, the article says what changed.