CAPS Successfully Completes SAS 70 Type II 2009 Audit; Shelton and Duluth Facilities" Audit Schedule Established

Shelton, Conn. (PRWEB) September 17, 2009

The successful completion of its 2009 service auditor’s review, commonly known as a SAS 70 audit, of its General Controls Supporting the Remote Backup and Recovery Hosting Solutions, by a nationally recognized independent auditing firm, was announced by Computer Alternative Processing Sites (CAPS), Inc., a leading provider of first class total IT solutions for small and medium businesses (SMB) and enterprise organizations.

This is part of CAPS’ continued commitment to maintaining a high level of internal control. CAPS’ management understands the ever increasing importance of corporate governance, as well as the relationship between the IT services offered by CAPS and our clients’ internal controls. Along with the conclusion of its 2009 SAS 70 Type II audit, CAPS has established a consistent audit plan moving forward. The company also has engaged its service auditor to a long-term contract, whereby its secure facilities in Shelton, Connecticut and Duluth, Georgia will undergo an annual Type II audit.

SAS 70 is an acronym for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS) No. 70, titled “Reports on the Processing of Transactions by Service Organizations”. SAS No. 70 defines the professional standards used by a service auditor to assess the internal controls of a service organization and issue a service auditor’s report.

In order to complete the audit, CAPS management developed control objectives for the significant areas of internal control that support the General Controls Supporting the Remote Backup and Recovery Hosting Solutions. The control objectives in the Year report addressed each of the following areas:

CAPS Successfully Completes SAS 70 Type II 2009 Audit; Shelton and Duluth Facilities" Audit Schedule Established

Established UK ISP Veber Announces Upcoming Launch of UK Python Cloud Server & Cloud Backup Offering

Watford, UK (PRWEB UK) 8 November 2011

The staff at the POBox Group, home of established UK ISP Veber and the new Python Cloud Server and Cloud Backup venture, are very aware that the ‘Cloud’ is currently a hotly debated topic in the web hosting industry and as such have vowed to ensure that, when launched in early 2012, Python offers an accessible and demand-appropriate service to its customers.

Tim Poultney, CEO of the POBox Group, is enthusiastic in his belief that “this computing model presents important advantages for SMEs and larger businesses in the current climate. Those financial and logistical advantages of using a cloud-based infrastructure can only be truly realised if businesses have an understanding of what they are entering into. One of Python’s priorities is to help with that understanding. We are entering into a competitive market, take Amazon’s AWS and EC2, Virgin Media’s VPDC or Rackspace’s OpenStack project for example. The technology is growing, the awareness is growing – we aim to grow the understanding so that customers can make the right choices about computing models to suit their needs.”

Certainly, the advantages of Cloud Hosting are well-propagated: lower hardware costs, lower personnel costs and better security to name a few. When adopting this solution a business has no need to invest in expensive equipment or employ costly expert employees. In addition, security is one element where the benefits come into their own. Hardware crash? No problem, your offsite hosted data is safe in a secure, offsite location with maximum resilience.

Moreover, as James Robinson, Python’s Operations Manager, explains “this technology offers a high degree of personalisation and scalability. Customised Cloudstack software manages the virtualisation and allocates the cloud’s resources. As Cloud infrastructure is built on the tenets of scalability and adaptability the customer can increase or decrease their usage on demand instead of relying on a Veber style Dedicated Server with a fixed capacity. Customers will pay only for the resources they use.”

Pythons offering is built on industry standard virtualisation software from VMware, with the addition of a customised Cloudstack software layer which manages all the automated infrastructure features such as high availability, resource load management, storage scaling and hardware monitoring. When asked who would benefit, Tim Poultney remarked, Python Servers are for any company needing a flexible and secure hosting infrastructure our expertise is already proven but we want to make this accessible to every company that needs cloud. Weve designed Python as not only an easy to use, scalable and reliable infrastructure, but also easy for companies to understand and adapt adding a second, third or fourth server is simple.

If you are looking for online backup, the Disaster Recovery service will include specifications suitable for home workstations right through to larger enterprises. “We have thought carefully about the buyer personas we are aiming our service at”, says Vicki Perch Python’s Marketing Consultant, “and want to ensure that our offering is equally as accessible to a home PC user as to an SME or larger business Director. This includes the technical specification we offer as well as the cost and the support.” On the technical side, Python has been built with Windows, Mac and Linux clients and offers many advanced features such as long retention policies, full end to end encryption and multiple datasets. A full list of features will be available shortly.

Python’s services will be backed by the same marks of quality as their Veber counterparts. The Python Promise will ensure the use of branded hardware, Tier 1 UK datacentres such as Telehouse London, Tier 1 connectivity, 24/7 email support and like for like price match policy.

Python will be online in early 2012. In the meantime keep an eye on the website at http://www.python.co.uk or the POBox Group’s blog at blog.veber.co.uk to keep up to date with developments. You can also follow @veberhost on Twitter or take a look at facebook.com/veberhost. Veber continues to offer its trademark flexible and tailored approach to Dedicated Server Hosting, Cloud Hosting Services and Colocation Services.

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