Tag Archives: Available Enterprise

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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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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Availability: What It Is and Why It’s Important
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In just a few short years, the concept of ‘availability’ – maintaining business as usual – has gone from being seen as an optional extra to a fundamental necessity. When SunGard Availability Services started out more than 30 years ago, … Continue reading

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Availability Usurps Recovery to Become the Defacto Business Mind-Set
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London, UK: 27th March, 2013 – SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability services, today revealed that steady and sustained growth over recent years in managed services adoption has led to an improvement in the UK’s … Continue reading

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Hear All About It!
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If you like to get your news and information while on the move, you’ll be pleased to hear that SunGard Availability Services has launched two new audiobooks in its series of free ‘READpapers’ for you to listen to on demand. … Continue reading

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Availability ‘At a Glance’
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Further to our original posting of this story, links have been refreshed to take readers directly to the Available Enterprise microsite – a webspace dedicated to the sharing of research, resources and insights on this topic - and which provides an open and … Continue reading

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The Rise and Rise of Workplace Recovery
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So your data, sitting in resilient clouds and data centres is undoubtedly more resilient and more available, you only have to look at SunGard’s 2012 Invocations Statistics to see that.  A remarkable change from a decade ago.  Of course, that … Continue reading

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Delivering the Available Enterprise ‘At a Glance’
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SunGard Availability Services has produced this simple infographic that gives a ‘state of the nation’ snapshot of availability: what it is, the factors driving it, the benefits and, most importantly, how organisations can become ‘available enterprises’ in their own right. The … Continue reading

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