To provide Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) 70 Type II data center facilities to ShareMethods.

AppSite, a provider of web hosting services, today announced that they have been selected by sales and marketing storage firm, ShareMethods, to provide Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) 70 Type II data center facilities.

The company reveals that by hosting the ShareMethods service at Appsite's datacenter, ShareMethods hopes to provide their customers security, reliability, and responsiveness. AppSite Hosting will also allow ShareMethods to provide redundancy and scale even when adding customers.

ShareMethods delivers sales and marketing library to manage, share, and distribute materials such as proposals, marketing collateral, customer agreements, and partner documents on a global basis.

SAS 70 Type II certification designates that the data center complies with the auditing standard, developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A Type II report not only includes the service organization's description of controls, but also includes testing of the service organization's controls over a minimum six month period.

"We are pleased to be able to provide a robust and scalable infrastructure for ShareMethods to grow and become successful. Our strong technological background and SAS 70 certification gives ShareMethods the utmost confidence in our data center as they expand their capabilities and bring on more customers," said Craig Schmidtke, General Manager of AppSite Hosting.

"The upgrade to a SAS 70 data center is part of our ongoing commitment to provide the highest level of service to our customers. ShareMethods has provided 99.9%+ availability over the last two years and we expect an even higher level in the new data center. Our global user community of 135 companies operating in 23 countries will benefit from this upgrade to a higher level of industry standard reliability. We are also pleased that AppSite's nationwide reach allows us to expand to additional data centers on an as-needed basis," said Eric Hoffert, CEO of ShareMethods.