The Latest in Data Center Management and Innovations

For over a decade SAS-70 Type II audits have been a key requirement for all organizations who outsource their data center operations to a colocation facility.  This year The American Institute of CPA's replaced SAS-70 with a new auditing standard, SSAE 16.  This new standard is similar to SAS-70 but has a few different components.  The following article by Mark Eich at LarsonAllen LLP does a nice job of describing the changes.

Today most IT organizations run a mission critical operation.  The cost of down time is costly can be measured in millions of dollars and even life or death in some cases. Creating a high availability or "always on" environment can be very costly and in most cases the economics lean to wards leasing wholesale data center space or utilizing a colocation facility like DataSite.