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 Register for our Free Cloud Seminar in Southfield, Michigan: 3.22.11- 2 Cloud or not 2 Cloud: The Business Case for Cloud Computing Join industry experts from across the country in this discussion of the business case for cloud computing. Register for our March 22nd seminar. Southfield Michigan 8:15am-noon @ the Southfield Hilton Garden Inn. Recorded Webinars: Navigating the World of Cloud ComputingWatch > Leveraging Cloud Computing Watch > Anatomy of a Private Cloud Watch > News: 
Ancor Selects Online Tech’s Data Center for IT Disaster Recovery Facilities and Services 
Online Tech Operating Under New SSAE 16 and SOC 3 Audit Standards 
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Private Cloud Computing: How It Changes Disaster Recovery IT disaster recovery is making sure you can recover your systems and your data. If you have either a disaster that takes out your production IT system or you have an outage for an extended period of time, a disaster recovery plan can help you recover and get your systems and your data back up and online. In today's environment so many businesses are critically dependent on their IT infrastructure. Having a disaster recovery plan and making sure you can recover your data and your systems in a time-effective fashion is really critical to the survival of most organizations and making sure they can survive any disaster that may hit their IT infrastructure.
So the best way to think about that is, there's really a kind of spectrum - on one end of the spectrum, there's offsite backup where you're looking at a very cost-effective solution, something where your recovery time objective or RTO is really measured in days - 3-7 days. The Anatomy of a Private Cloud
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Last April, the AICPA announced that SAS 70 was going away, to be replaced by SSAE 16. Since that time, additional discussion and guidance has resulted in more fine-tuning of the standards. It turns out that the AICPA has done a lot more than just renumber and reorganize SAS 70. The Institute has created three new Service Organization Control (SOC) reports intended to provide a framework for CPAs to examine controls at a service organization. SOC 1: SSAE 16 and The New SAS 70 SOC 1 reports will result from attestation engagements focused on controls at service organizations that are likely to be relevant to an audit of a user entity’s (customer’s) financial statements. These engagements will be conducted in accordance with Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) 16. Type 1 reports present the auditors’ opinion regarding the accuracy and completeness of management’s description of the system or service as well as the suitability of the design of controls as of a specific date. A Type 2 SOC 1 report provides the auditors’ opinion as to the accuracy and completeness, the suitability of the design of controls, AND the operating effectiveness of the controls throughout a declared time period, generally between six months and one year. |
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