Comcast’s vast and constantly growing footprint spans 29 regional networks in 39 states and includes:

• A enhanced Fiber Optic network, with more than 145,000 miles of fiber, that provides high speed, high quality and high definition services to a number of large companies.
  
• A support structure made up of thousands of professionals with the knowledge and experience to hande any situation
• MEF- certified Carrier Class Ethernet that Delivers standardized, scalable and reliable Metro Ethernet solutions – at a service and hardware level.

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The examination was conducted by an independent service auditor, in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Pulblic Accountants and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about Springs Hosting’s compliance with those requirements and performing such other procedures considered necessary in the circumstances. It was deteremined that Springs Hosting complied with the HIPAA regulation in all material respects.

What does HIPAA AT 601 Compliance mean to me?
This compliance ensures to our customers, that Springs Hosting provides a high availability hosting environment to ensure ePHI accessibility as required. Springs Hosting provides a copy of our HROC (HIPAA Report on Compliance) under NDA.

If your company is storing any sensitive patient information or health records, the data center that hosts your data also needs to follow HIPAA compliance. Springs Hosting can providethe  physical, environmental, network and infrastructure security your business needs to protect patient information and meet HIPAA compliance standards. After completing a HIPAA audit by an independent service auditor, it was determined that Springs Hosting is 100% compliant, meaning that we can guarantee our facilities operate and implement HIPAA compliant controls and security measures.

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An independent service auditor examined the policies and procedures and business processes in place at Springs Hosting from February 1, 2011 – January 31, 2012.  “The auditors spent a considerable amount of time inspecting our data center facility, learning about our procedures and interviewing Springs Hosting Management.”, said Jeremy Keefe, CIO  “Springs Hosting is proud to have successfully completed the SSAE 16 Type II audit.  The audit benefits many of our customers that are publicly traded companies and institutional organizations that must comply with additional security requirements. The SSAE 16 audit is also a helpful sales tool for our clients to use for their customers and can be useful for start-ups looking for venture capital, which often has security requirements.”

What is SSAE 16?

In 1992, the AICPA developed a set of guidelines for evaluating service organizations known as the SAS 70.  The SSAE 16 is an enhancement to the SAS 70 and went into effect in June of 2011.  The changes made to the standard will bring the US companies up to date with new international service organization reporting standards, the ISAE 3402.

A SSAE 16 report, also known as a SOC-1 (Service Organization Control) report, is beneficial to both the service organization and its clients because it demonstrates that the service organization has implemented effective control objects and activities.  The SSAE 16 report can aid the service organization’s clients in completing their own financial audits.

In the hosting and colocation industries, the SSAE 16 report is important for companies who are relying more and more on outsourced hosting and colocation services.  The SSAE 16 report allows hosting companies and data centers to complete one report that all their clients can use.

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“Keeping your equipment’s built in time clocks sync’d and especially your network equipment can be crucial to maintaining a smooth operating network.” said Brian Korzen, Systems Administrator at Springs Hosting. “The new additions just give us one more thing to offer to our customers and are especially helpful to our customers utilizing CCTV equipment.”

Time is critical for transactions across computer networks. Many events on the network need accurate time to initiate and control processes, and complete transactions such as authentication. Accurate time for time stamps and log files is also very important for billing systems, network diagnostics, digital forensics, high-reliability databases and process analysis. Yet clocks in electronic devices are not designed for accuracy and can drift by more than an hour in a year. The solution is to always connect your network devices and systems to a server via network time protocol (NTP).

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Springs Hosting Names Dennis Ellison as New Chief Financial Officer

Colorado Springs, CO; April 15th, 2011, Springs Hosting, a leading provider of Managed IT Services for medium to large businesses, announced today that Dennis Ellison has been hired as Chief Financial Officer.

Dennis Ellison has over 36 years of experience in the design and implementation of accounting systems for both large and small business entities. The specifics of his experience include the creation of accounting systems tailored to various business applications; design of sales rates based upon prudent cost assignment and allocation; creation of cost center reporting; evaluation of potential mergers and acquisitions; preparation of forecasts and budgets; negotiation and administration of contracts and agreements; and administration of income, severance, franchise, sales and payroll taxes.

“I am thrilled to have Dennis on board as our chief financial officer. His vast experience of diverse business models, from both the finance and management perspective, is paramount to Springs Hosting’s designs for expanding its markets,” said Don Brown, CEO. “I believe that he will be a strong leader as we continue our dynamic growth initiative in 2011 and the promotion of our leading-edge Managed IT Services nationwide.”

Dennis began his career with the national Certified Public Accounting firm of Deloitte and Touché, was employed for over 24 years with Colorado Interstate Gas Company, and has since held the position of Controller for several smaller corporations.

“Over the past six years, I have observed the rapid, yet responsible, growth of Springs Hosting. I am especially impressed with the company’s innovative management and their dedication to providing quality customer care,” said Dennis Ellison CFO. “I believe that my experience and skill set align well with Springs Hosting’s current and future business plans.”

About Springs Hosting

Founded in 2006, Springs Hosting continues to expand its Managed IT Services to include network design & support, data center services, colocation, dedicated servers, VPS, website and email hosting. Springs Hosting’s ability to recruit and maintain its staff of talented employees has assured a high level of reliable service that Springs Hosting customers’ have grown to trust for their critical data systems’ needs. Springs Hosting has proven through hard work that it is a solution-oriented company with a focus on delivering flexible, yet “spot-on” technology for today’s businesses.

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“The new VPS systems include many features that we did not have previously with our previous VPS infrastructure including mobile access via your iPhone and Andriod to control your virtual server.”, said CIO Jeremy Keefe.  “The Xen-based systems include capabilities for both Paravirtualization (PV) and Hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM).  The machines are running with fixed usage limits, below full capacity on dual 6-core Dell PowerEdge servers running Xen virtulization instances. We have built a very flexible infrastructure with both 64-bit and 32-bit Linux and Windows images available giving our customers complete root / administrator control over their virtual machine.  If our customer does not have a systems administrator to maintain their VPS, we also provide one to them as an optional service giving our customers all the tools needed to run their applications successfully.”

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