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Compliance in the operations world is usually driven by some combination of acronyms and the technical and operational requirements they imply. In the government space, it may mean FISMA, DIACAP; and in the commercial space, we are most familiar with PCI, HIPAA, SOX. In an environment such as Carpathia Hosting where we have a wide variety of both commercial and federal customers, our operations organization has to be able to support our clients compliance requirements, whatever acronym they have to use.

Simply put, a compliant data center is a data center that conforms to a set of regulatory rules, specifications, standards or laws. Conforming to mandated laws or standards to meet federal and commercial regulations requires a considerable investment infrastructure, personnel and services. However, due to the significant cost, many commercial or private data centers have not made the proper investment in the physical, environmental and operational controls and services to meet the minimum regulatory requirements.