Deepak Chauhan
Founder
Deepak is the founder of Stackroom and co-founder and CEO of VOCSO Technologies, where he builds software for businesses. He started Stackroom after watching too many organisations run a six-figure estate of laptops, monitors and equipment off a shared spreadsheet. He writes about where asset tracking breaks in practice, and usually argues against buying more software than you need.
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Chain of Custody for Sensitive Equipment: A Practical Guide
When a laptop or drive holds regulated data, 'we think it was wiped' isn't an answer. What a chain of custody record contains, which rules expect one, and where chains usually break.
The IT Asset Lifecycle: Stages, Costs and Secure Disposal
The seven stages of an IT asset's life, how long laptops really last, how depreciation and total cost fit together, and what NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2, WEEE and state e-waste laws expect at the end.
Laptop Loss and Theft Statistics (2026): What the Data Shows
The laptop loss numbers everyone quotes are mostly 15+ years old and vendor-sponsored. Here is what each one actually measured, plus what current breach data from Verizon, HHS and the ICO shows.
Multi-Office Asset Management: One Register Across Every Site
How to run one equipment register across several offices: location hierarchy, local custody, moves between sites, rotating counts and per-site values for tax.
Hardware Asset Inventory for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 Audits
What ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS Control 1 and NIST CSF 2.0 actually say about hardware inventory, and the evidence auditors expect: owners, leaver returns and disposal certificates.
Fixed Asset Register Requirements: US GAAP, IFRS and UK FRS 102
What a fixed asset register must hold under ASC 360, IAS 16 and FRS 102, how capitalisation thresholds and the IRS de minimis safe harbor work, and why you need both a book and a tax register.
Repair or Replace Equipment? A Decision Framework With Real Inputs
The 50% rule is a starting point, not an answer. A repair-or-replace framework built on cover, remaining life, repair history, downtime and tax treatment.
Asset Tracking Software Pricing Models: Per Asset, User or Agent
Asset tracking tools bill on items, assets, users, admins, agents or asset units. Here is how each model works, using vendors' own pricing pages, and what 400 assets and 50 people cost under each.
Asset Tracking ROI: How to Build the Business Case (With a Model)
A worked ROI model for asset tracking software: which inputs survive a finance review, how to cost staff time, payback period, and a sensitivity table showing what the case depends on.
How Much Does Asset Management Software Cost? Total Cost in 2026
The licence is only one line. A total-cost view of asset management software (licence, setup, labels, migration and staff time) with worked three-year totals for 25, 100 and 500 people.
IT Equipment Management for Growing Teams: A Practical Guide
Doubling headcount breaks whatever you were doing before. Here's what to put in place at fifty people so you're not reconstructing it at two hundred.
What Lost Equipment Actually Costs (And How to Calculate It)
Replacement price is the smallest part of it. Four other costs that rarely make it into the figure, and a method for producing a number you can defend.
Why Company Equipment Goes Missing: Causes, Costs and Prevention
It's almost never theft. It's a chain of perfectly well-meant handovers where, at some point, nobody was actually responsible. That's a paperwork problem, and paperwork problems have fixes.
Why Asset Registers Go Out of Date — And How to Keep Yours Accurate
Your register isn't wrong because people are careless. It's wrong because updating it costs more effort than skipping it. Here's where that cost hides.