Virtualization and Cloud Services
Customers, partners, management, and employees are all demanding greater performance, rapid scale and higher availability and order to survive and thrive. Your critical business processes, applications and data are the core of these capabilities.
And yet finding the right solution – one that is scalable, resilient, cost effective, and takes your particular business needs into account – is more challenging then ever.
SunGard’s Virtualization and Cloud Services help deliver the required performance through an easily scalable and highly available solution, leveraging a secured shared architecture – all from a trusted provider. Focusing on delivering just the right capacity, at just the right time, we can help transform your IT operations and infrastructure from a capital-intensive function to a leaner, operationally-focused organization.
Leveraging a multi-tenant pool of resources, SunGard provides fully managed infrastructure and recovery solutions as well as on-demand resources (such as processing power, storage, bandwidth, etc.) to help you achieve significant costs savings, while delivering reliability, redundancy and agility.
SunGard is a leading member of VMware’s ™ vCloud™ partner ecosystem, which today has more than 100 companies committed to providing customers with computing capacity inside and outside their firewalls – how they want, when they want, and as much as they want.
As a VMware partner, SunGard is leveraging VMware’s proven virtualization platform to create faster, centralized and automated information availability services to protect both virtual and traditional IT environments.
How we deliver the benefits:
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Virtual Server Replication
Enjoy application fail over in as little as 15 minutes to SunGard’s fully managed utility/cloud infrastructure, backed by a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLA- for your Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications.
SunGard’s Virtual Server Replication service combines virtualization technology, best-in-class recovery capability, and managed production services all delivered in one easily configurable unit:
- Recovery SLA: As the only DR provider with contractually guaranteed service level agreement (SLA), we'll have your critical business applications back up and running in six hours or less.
- A fully managed solution: Recovery-as-a-Service
- Off-site redundancy: Replication of data to off-site location increases reliability
- Cost-effectiveness: 30-51% less expensive than physical server replication
IT Recovery for virtualized platforms
SunGard provides numerous options for your business to support the recovery of a virtualized environment. Whether providing extra hands during a test, never-fail support during a full-scale recovery, or managing the entire recovery process end-to-end on your behalf, SunGard can support the recovery of both your virtualized and physical systems across multiple platforms.
Production Services
Virtualized Platform Hosting
As part of our Managed Services offerings, SunGard provides Enterprise Managed Services and Full Infrastructure Management services for ESX servers.
Consulting Services
Virtualization Assessment
SunGard’s experts help you build a business case for saving money, migrating data centers, or consolidating servers and other devices using a virtual infrastructure.
SunGard’s Virtualization Assessment goes far beyond simply planning and implementing virtualization technology. Our in-depth assessment helps you build a business case for consolidating servers and other devices to a virtual infrastructure. A comprehensive analysis with SunGard identifies the risks, gaps, and necessary future actions. At the same time, it helps ensure your organization’s critical business-processing capabilities are available and recoverable.
Virtualization Strategy and Design
Planning and building a virtualized IT environment doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
SunGard creates a server-by-server action plan, recommends virtualization solutions, and projects cost, space and energy savings—and here’s what differentiates SunGard—all aligned with your availability objectives.
Contact SunGard today to find out more about how we can help. Call 1.800.468.7483.