Virtualization-based IT continuity services announced by SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services has unveiled its virtualization-based infrastructure and services initiative, which will extend its portfolio of information availability services to include additional virtualization- and automation-based IT recovery, end-user recovery, high availability and managed services. These services will provide organizations with a cost effective way to achieve recovery timeframes of less than four hours, as well as providing ‘capacity-on-demand’ for times when business situations require companies to scale up their usual operations for short-term requirements.

"Recovery is becoming more complex as business and IT requirements increasingly become more intertwined - while at the same time the availability targets for these systems and applications have never been higher," said David Tapper, program director, Outsourcing, Utility and Offshore Services at IDC. "This new initiative leverages SunGard's core competencies in keeping people, systems and information continuously working together and combines them with virtualization technologies to make recovery processes more agile and help meet increased expectations."

SunGard's virtualization-based infrastructure and services initiative will help to simplify recovery, testing, quality assurance and production applications for enterprises striving for information availability at all times. The initiative builds on SunGard's disaster recovery and AdvancedRecovery capabilities, which provide businesses with options for their risk mitigation; for data monitoring, managing, and protecting; and for rapid hardware provisioning.

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•Date: 28th Feb 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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