IT Partnership Protects Sensitive Information through Secure IT Services and Top-of-the-Line SuperNAP Data Center in Nevada
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — With cybersecurity top of mind amid media
reports of hackers and even nations targeting bank and credit accounts,
government networks and power grids, nonprofits and nongovernmental
organizations can’t afford to ignore threats to their data. Recent
discussion surrounding Data Privacy Day on Jan. 28 is a reminder that
the loss of crucial data to sinister elements can endanger sensitive
donor information – as well as lives in dangerous, closed countries
abroad.
CrossOlive (www.crossolive.com),
a partnership between IT firms Cross Link Group and Olive Technology,
specializes in affordably and securely hosting crucial and sensitive
data for ministries and other nonprofits and NGOs. CrossOlive serves its
clients’ systems needs through the Switch (www.switchnap.com)
SuperNAP data center in Las Vegas, an enormous, cutting-edge facility
serving Fortune 50 corporations, government agencies and others, and
protected by military-grade security.
CrossOlive is located on the seventh datacenter owned and operated by
Switch Communications Group. The SuperNAP 7 is nearly 500,000 sq. ft.,
the size of 10 football fields, with a unique blending of more than 20
fiber carriers (of the most popular tier 1 providers), according to Jeff
Ames, part-owner, former (retired) chief technology officer for Switch
Communications Group, and supporter of CrossOlive’s efforts.
With patented high-efficiency air handling systems, Switch minimizes
the amount of power required, while maximizing density simultaneously.
The SuperNAP also has three independent power protection systems and no
single point of failure, thus providing 100 percent up time. With
tri-redundancy power, ultra-high availability of Internet connectivity,
and extreme physical security, CrossOlive is able to provide
unparalleled continuous service and can scale to whatever the future
holds.
“Security at the SuperNAP can be as high as that of military
installations, with five levels of physical security to get to each
rack” said Ron Fleming, president and CEO of Cross Link Group. “Guards
with military backgrounds secure the facility in one of the lowest
disaster-probability areas in the United States.”
CrossOlive has been operating at SuperNAP for nearly three years,
Fleming said, housing 100 clients and 150 servers, blades, SANs and rack
servers, with vast room for expansion.
The secure hosting service is complimented by software solutions
provided by Olive Technology, which delivers a high level of physical
and logical security as defined by PCI compliance and ISO 27001. Olive
is one of the few companies in the world designated by DNV, a premier
European ISO certification and auditing agency, as ISMS certified
(Information Security Management Systems). Numerous security checkpoints
are in place and audited regularly at Olive’s operations in India to
keep the certification current.
“Since we work on product development for a number of clients,
protection of their Internet solutions has been one of our foremost
priorities,” said Joseph Vijayam, managing director of Olive Technology.
“In more than 15 years of operation, we have not experienced a single
breach, while building countless software products for different clients
in a variety of domains, such as Christian nonprofits, healthcare,
education, finance, banking, manufacturing, philanthropy and retail.”
Olive’s leaders, like those of its partner Cross Link Group, have a
heart for nonprofit work. Both organizations have served primarily
Christian organizations, and their staffs are committed to seeing
faith-based organizations succeed. Many of the partnership’s staff
members serve in ministry or have backgrounds as pastors, missionaries
and teachers, and understand the mission of nonprofits and NGOs.
“Understand that some organizations require a high level of security to
protect missionaries in sensitive areas such as China and the Middle
East. People’s lives are on the line and countries and governments want
to implicate Christians for sharing their faith,” Fleming said.
“Meanwhile, donors need to trust ministries and other nonprofits with
their private data and want the same level of security that a secular or
for-profit organization or bank requires,” Vijayam said. “They need to
abide by credit card regulations such as PCI DSS, just like for-profit
organizations. The CrossOlive partnership can provide the high-level
security that nonprofits and NGOs require – all at a reasonable price.”
CrossOlive became a partnership in the summer of 2009. Olive and Cross
Link Group complement each other to provide comprehensive service for
CrossOlive’s clients.
“There is no overlap, so each organization provides unique skills to
provide a comprehensive solution for each client,” Fleming said. “Olive
focuses on websites and other customized applications that require
hosting. Cross Link Group provides backend applications and off- the-
shelf solutions that also need hosting, such as email and donor
management. Together as CrossOlive, we bring end-to-end solutions to
nonprofits and NGOs needing top-of-the-line service and data
protection.”
Olive Technology (www.olivetech.com),
based in Colorado Springs, is an Information Technology services
organization providing full-service solutions in software development,
web services and process management for the past 15 years. Olive was
formed with the expressed purpose to better serve clients through their
global resources, talent and technology. Olive’s goal is to be a key
partner to customers by providing a high level of service, reliability
and quality in an offshore environment. Since its inception in 1996, it
has provided comprehensive technology services to more than 100 clients
in 10 countries.
Cross Link Group (CLG) is also based in Colorado Springs (www.crosslinkgroup.com)
and is a strategic planning, network management and Help Desk solution
provider committed to helping ministries that have difficulty managing
or affording information technology on their own. Its mission is to
provide affordable, professional and functional information technology
to every ministry it serves. Their goal is to enable ministries to
leverage technology, using good stewardship, to achieve their mission.
CLG provides server monitoring and support remotely around the U.S. and
the globe. CLG services over 50 clients globally.
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