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Certifications

Cleanbits

Cleanbits

Cleanbits is an active organization striving to deliver a meaningful contribution towards creating a more sustainable, environmentally-friendly internet. Green Hosting Directory and The Green Web addons database list hosting companies and their customers that run on green energy, or that compensate their CO2-footprint in other ways.

Safe Harbor

Safe Harbor

The safe harbor is an important way for U.S. companies to avoid experiencing interruptions in their business dealings with the EU or facing prosecution by European authorities under European privacy laws. Certifying to the safe harbor will assure that EU organizations know that your company provides "adequate" privacy protection, as defined by the Directive.

Cisco

Cisco Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

For individuals who install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium-size route and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN. This includes basic mitigation of security threats, introduction to wireless networking concepts and terminology, and performance-based skills. This new curriculum also includes IP, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Serial Line Interface Protocol Frame Relay, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2),VLANs, Ethernet, access control lists (ACLs).

Cisco Certified Network Professional

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP®) validates the ability to plan, implement, verify and troubleshoot local and wide-area enterprise networks and work collaboratively with specialists on advanced security, voice, wireless and video solutions.

Citrix Ready

Citrix Ready

Citrix Ready identifies recommended solutions that are trusted to enhance the Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. All products featured in Citrix Ready have completed verification testing thereby providing customer confidence in joint solution compatibility. Leveraging our industry leading alliances and partner eco-system, Citrix Ready showcases select trusted solutions designed to meet various customer needs.

Mezeo Ready

Mezeo Ready

The Mezeo Ready community is made up of service providers, customers, developers, cloud gateway providers and technology partners all focused on delivering cloud storage solutions. The program is designed to make it even easier for you and your customers to find and deploy Mezeo Ready solutions.

Parallels Platinum Partner

Parallels Service Provider

The Parallels Service Provider Partner Program is for hosting and cloud services providers who are interested in leveraging Parallels expertise and improving their offerings through best-in-class automation and virtualization solutions.

Platinum partners are large national or international providers that run either their total virtual infrastructure or a large majority of their infrastructure on Parallels virtualization and automation products, and offer Parallels products in their service plans.

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

Microsoft Gold Certified Partners are the top level of Microsoft solutions partners and have access to the tools and support they need to help them stand out in the marketplace. At this level you have the opportunity to build the closest working relationship with Microsoft with other top-level benefits such as a priority listing in the Microsoft Resource Directory. As a partner you are required to enroll in at least one Microsoft Competency.

Microsoft Hosting Solutions Competency

As more and more organizations explore how to offset the cost of maintaining critical business applications, demand for hosted services has increased. With the Hosting competency, you can take full advantage of this opportunity to expand your offerings and build deeper, more trusted relationships with your customers. You can also develop new, recurring revenue by offering your customers the power of choice.

Microsoft Network Infrastructure Solutions Competency

The growing midmarket-business segment represents a largely untapped opportunity for partners. You can differentiate your organization by demonstrating your expertise in building critical infrastructure solutions based on Microsoft desktop, business-management, and server technology that can expand on midmarket customers' current system foundations.

Microsoft Server Platform Competency

Attaining the Server Platform competency helps you capitalize on strong customer demand for Windows Server and Windows Server - based infrastructure solutions. Driving this growth are top Chief Information Officer (CIO) priorities, such as the need to reduce IT infrastructure costs, the need to provide applications to run businesses and reach customers more effectively, disaster recovery, server virtualization, and server consolidation.

Microsoft BizSpark

Microsoft Bizspark

Microsoft® BizSparkTM is a global program that helps fast-track the success of early stage technology startups with all the right resources, including software, support & marketing visibility.

Microsoft WebsiteSpark

Microsoft WebsiteSpark

Microsoft® WebsiteSparkTM is designed to ignite the success of professional Web developers and designers. The program enables you to get software, support and business opportunities from Microsoft at no upfront costs for 3 years or exit from the program. WebsiteSpark provides access to a technology offering for development and production hosting of websites.

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SOC 2

SOC 2 (Service Organization Control) Report is an examination engagement performed by a service auditor in accordance with the predefined criteria in Trust Services Principles, Criteria and Illustrations, as well as the requirements and guidance in AT Section 101, Attest Engagements, of SSAEs (AICPA, Professional Standards, vol. 1). The intent of a SOC 2 report is to provide an understanding of the details of the processing and controls at a service organization, by testing the design of the controls and their operating effectiveness, with the goal of instilling confidence and gaining trust in that service organization’s systems.

A core requirement for SOC 2 reporting is that of developing a description of the service organizations system; that is, a detailed and comprehensive narrative that describes the services provided, along with the supporting processes, policies, procedures, personnel and operational activities that constitute the service organization's core activities that are relevant to user entities.

The design and operating controls for the Security and Availability Trust Service Principles were tested, and found to be suitably designed and operating effectively.

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Other Certifications

Multiple Microsoft Certified Professionals

Multiple Certified RedHat Professionals

Multiple A+ Certified Professionals

Multiple Network + Certified Professionals

Multiple Server + Certified Professionals