Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) -  On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer Technologies, has completed a SAS 70 review.

Including the assessment of all processes and systems necessary to complete an accompanying Type II report, the audit and evaluation were part of its ongoing commitment to provide customers with industry-best standards and practices. A SAS 70 Type II review is an in-depth survey of a service organization’s control objectives and activities, with an evaluation of the organizations’ effectiveness in meeting those control objectives.

Steve Kinman, Customer Service Manager at SoftLayer noted, ”We are very excited to have completed this process. It gives us an objective standard for assuring all of our customers, of all sizes, that we provide reliable, tested, and secure hosting services based upon industry-recognized standards.”

It is an important step for any service organization supporting outsourced, mission-critical, and information technology services. The survey includes a full assessment of: Oversight by executive management Operations and customer service Development and information technology organization Human resources policies and procedures Risk assessment monitoring SAS 70 data centers must maintain prescribed levels of data security and redundancy, as well as personnel controls. The data center’s staff cannot access servers or data without a specific procedure. All systems access and activity must be logged, and all physical access is highly controlled.

SoftLayer’s review was conducted by an independent auditing agency and included extensive testing performed over a six-month period. It involved all existing SoftLayer data center facilities in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA and Washington DC. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry’s first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

For more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

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