Category Archives: Data Centre

EthosData Builds the Core of its Infrastructure with SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud
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EthosData is a global provider of virtual data room and confidential document sharing services, helping businesses exchange critical information to support commercial transactions from deal-making to due diligence, securely and efficiently. The fast-growing provider needed an IT environment that could … Continue reading

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Workplace Restart – another weapon in the ‘people recovery’ armoury
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SunGard operates 1.2 million sq ft of operations space (of which over 300,000 sq ft comprise fully-equipped, secure and highly resilient technology centres). These facilities support colocation, managed hosting, enterprise cloud, network and managed security, as well as over 13,000 workplace positions. However, a … Continue reading

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Economy and technology are the biggest challenges to business availability for Northern CIOs, but a recent survey shows a will to keep on top of the problem…
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A recent survey conducted by Vansen Bourne for SunGard Availability Services asked the CIOs of 250 UK organisations what disruptions were most likely to affect their business during 2012.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, technological issues topped the list of concerns: Whilst the … Continue reading

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Power and Communication Failures Continue to Disrupt UK Workplaces
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SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today revealed that for the second year running that office disruptions such as power and communication failures are the main cause for invoking* business continuity … Continue reading

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SunGard Selected by UK Government to Support G-Cloud Initiative
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SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today announced it has been selected as a vendor to the UK government’s G-Cloud framework to deliver Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a … Continue reading

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Planning for Cloud Outages
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Last year was a trying one for Cloud Computing. While positioned as a game changing revolution for IT, most of the talk instead focused on some of the numerous high profile Cloud outages that affected scores of businesses and their … Continue reading

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Ensuring you’re not counting the cost of cloud disruption
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Following yet another batch of outages, the issue of information availability has once again sprung onto businesses’ agendas. While the emergence of cloud computing has undeniably helped data become more recoverable, the fact that cloud services can be affected by … Continue reading

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SunGard Offers CIOs Cloud Proof of Concept
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London, UK – Wednesday 14th December 2011:  SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, is offering an initiative for CIOs to test the benefits of a cloud computing environment in its most … Continue reading

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SunGard Availability Services Strengthens European Senior Management Team
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London, UK – 2 Nov 2011:  SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, has today announced two significant promotions to its Senior Management Team to help expand its footprint in the UK … Continue reading

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