The ATOs are processed in accordance with NIST 800-37 and 800-53 (rev 3) and can be accepted by any federal agency for cloud storage, virtual machines, and webhosting at the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Moderate Impact Level or lower.
Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Webhosting.