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Have we reached a turning point in how businesses manage resilience?
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We recently announced our annual analysis of major business disruptions in the UK, which aims to give an idea of the resilience landscape and how organisations are delivering this. This year’s results were significant, with overall disruptions dropping by over … Continue reading

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What drives availability?
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When it comes to the technology we rely on to do our jobs or get on with our daily lives, we are much like toddlers in one respect: we want it and we want it now! If we can’t do … Continue reading

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Flood protection – how to make sure it doesn’t sink your business
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A Soggy Outlook 2012 was one of the wettest years on record. Over 52 inches of rainfall splashed down on Britain, despite the country experiencing a drought over the first three months. Over 8,000 homes and businesses were battered by … Continue reading

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How to make the business case for availability
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So, as a clued-up CIO, you’re convinced of the need to become an ‘available enterprise’ but how do you convince the rest of the board? This is the thorny issue I recently discussed with Professor Nelson Phillips of Imperial College … Continue reading

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Considerable Scope for Cloud Migration Exists
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Most organisations still run a large majority of their IT applications, services and workloads within their own onpremises data centres (81%). This leaves significant scope to realise potential operational and efficiency improvements achievable by migrating some or more of those … Continue reading

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Customers need to know they can retrieve and delete data from Cloud Services whenever necessary
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Of those surveyed, 37% remain uncertain (22% fifty-fifty, 15% not confident) that they can transfer data to and from cloud services quickly and easily and in accordance with European regulatory directives. The overall findings indicate that confidence increases/decreases in line … Continue reading

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SunGard Availability Services and Workware Systems Announce Availability of WorkwareOne Mobile Operational Policing Solution
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SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability solutions, and Workware Systems, an innovative leader of mobile case management solutions have announced general availability of WorkwareOne Mobile, a Cloud-based platform for advanced, intelligence driven operational policing support. … Continue reading

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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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SunGard Availability Services Announces Continued Growth in India
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 London, England: 18 April, 2013 – SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability services, today announced its continued expansion into India, through the signing of Workplace Recovery contracts with two leading global financial institutions. This follows continued … Continue reading

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