Hosted ASP - Security
Overview:
Companies over the years considered outsourcing as a means to improve their financial bottom line by reducing capital investments in computer hardware, new software technologies and escalating employee expenses. These transfers in operational responsibilities increased the profits of companies by leveraging the expertise and processing efficiencies of the outsource provider.
It is now the time whereby companies are faced with:
• new rules for governance with Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS 70)
• new threats to information security and confidentiality in the form of physical and cyber intrusions, and
• new considerations for systems scalability, availability and collocation to ensure business continuity.
While each of these factors is of concern for both in-house and out-sourced operations, they require increased awareness and expertise in order to maintain compliance, achieve successful deployment, control expenses and increase market share.
Affirmative’s ASP partner:
Affirmative Technologies has engaged SAVVIS as its’ hosting provider and is proud to be associated with the #1 market shareholder in the data hosting segment.
Affirmative Technologies’ CTO says, “SAVVIS was a natural choice based on their heritage in the financial services industry and their global network and hosting infrastructure that many of our partners, customers and prospects already use. Given their understanding of both large and small financial institutions, SAVVIS worked with us to develop a turn-key, fully managed solution that leverages the expertise and core competencies of our company.”
SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS) is a global IT utility services provider that focuses exclusively on IT solutions for businesses. With an IT services platform that extends to 45 countries, SAVVIS has over 4,000 enterprise customers, including more than 1,500 financial institutions, and leads the industry in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting platform.
