Customers rely on SunGard to keep people and information connected.
SunGard Availability Services provides IT Operations support to IT departments that need to ensure business viability by keeping mission critical information and applications up and running. Unlike other companies that offer individual technology services, SunGard is focused on providing responsive and integrated disaster recovery, managed services, IT consulting and business continuity management software solutions, to help organizations keep people and information connected.
The diversity of our customer base is living proof of the broad range of benefits our solutions provide; over half of our customers are small and medium enterprises, and more than seventy percent of Fortune 500 companies rely on our services. Financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and business services industries are heavily represented, and we have significant customers from the transportation, telecommunications and utilities and government verticals.
Our portfolio of services contains a set of solutions that leverage shared, high-intensity IT resources, so our customers do not have to utilize redundant servers, electrical power and other resources to create a backup environment. SunGard is an aggressive adopter of green technology, researching and adopting best of breed components for our infrastructure and systems.
With a global reach and through our worldwide network of hardened, state-of-the-art facilities, SunGard Availability Services:
- Helps 10,000 customers worldwide achieve uninterrupted access to their mission-critical data and systems
- Employs more than 2,500 professionals with extensive Information Availability experience
- Supports more than 30 computing platforms
- Provides 5 million square feet of hardened, secure operations space
- Has a 100% recovery record
- Has over 40 mobile facilities staged in strategic locations
- Manages 80 hardened IT facilities connected by a redundant, global dedicated network backbone
- Has successfully supported over 100,000 tests and over 2,300 recoveries
- Has written more than 100,000 action plans and
- Has business continuity consultants working over 250,000 hours annually
From environmental enhancements, such as power usage in data centers, to understanding the increased demands on fast response and recovery times, SunGard boasts a proven track record and respected legacy in innovation. We meet your demands for reduced recovery times, less complexity and greater utility as information loads grow and technology-dependency advances.
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world’s 25 largest financial services companies.
SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.
*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com