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Wayne, Pa., November 18, 2009 – SunGard Availability Services Data Center Consulting played a lead role in helping Whitney National Bank redesign and improve its information technology (IT) infrastructure. Working with SunGard Data Center Consulting, Whitney found it could reduce costs and create data center efficiencies by moving production and back-up systems from a third-party services provider to available space at the Whitney Data Center in Prattville, Ala.

David Matusow, architect for Availability Services Consulting at SunGard Availability Services (www.availability.sungard.com) says data center pods can provide a much more cost-effective method of providing services using just-in-time provisioning. In a pod arrangement, he adds, various utilities such as power, communications, and waste handling are fed to the external facility, while the inside consists of a set of containers that are added as needed.

Providing time-sensitive information from global trading markets to customers worldwide is central to Mergent’s business. Mergent needed a way to address both high availability and disaster recovery in a way that did not overtax their small IT team. Mergent turned to SunGard to deliver a strategic solution that lets the IT team focus on areas most important to the business while also being assured availability needs were addressed.

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