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SunGard Availability Services and Workware Systems Announce Availability of WorkwareOne Mobile Operational Policing Solution
24.04.2013
SunGard Availability Services 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.

SunGard Availability Services Announces Continued Growth in India
18.04.2013
SunGard 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 demand from international businesses for higher levels of resilience regarding key operations, regardless of their geographical location, and a growing domestic market.

Availability Usurps Recovery to Become the Defacto Business Mind-Set
27.03.2013
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 business availability practices.

SunGard Predicts 2013 Technology Trends to Deliver the Available Enterprise
17.12.2012
Social Media, Customer Loyalty, Flexible Working, BYOD and Big Data all expected to have significant impact on driving enterprise availability in year ahead

SunGard Availability Services Secures ISO 27001 Certification
13.12.2012

Independent certification signifies that SunGard has achieved the highest levels of information security management


SunGard Availability Services Launches SunGard Online
20.11.2012
On-demand Cloud Computing Platform Puts Affordable, Flexible Infrastructure On Tap For Businesses

Generational Divide Dictates Business Availability
17.10.2012
According to a recent roundtable event, hosted by SunGard Availability Services, it is a ‘generational change’ that is impacting how information is accessed, used and needed within organisations. The roundtable panel*, including representatives from Imperial College London, Intellect, BDO LLP and Ascencus, found that today’s young, technology-savvy and mobile-ready workforce is bringing with it new expectations for 24/7 access to core data and applications, regardless of time, location and resources.

SunGard Partners with Regus to Power Expansion of its Workplace Availability Business to 550 Cities Worldwide
02.10.2012
The agreement represents a 2,000% growth in available workplace recovery facilities for SunGard Availability Services’ customers

Business Continuity for Dummies Guide
27.09.2012
Cabinet Office, in partnership with the Business Continuity Institute and Emergency Planning Society has worked to produce the new ‘Business Continuity for Dummies’, an essential ‘survival’ guide for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

CIOs Struggle To Meet ‘Always On’ Expectations
13.09.2012
SunGard Availability Services Partners with Imperial College London to Address the Issue of Enterprise Availability

UK Business Lacks Enterprise Availability Awareness
26.07.2012
SunGard Availability Services Sponsored Research Reveals Management Mindset has to Change to Prioritise Customers

Prestigious Award Recognition for SunGard
01.06.2012
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, has today announced its crisis communications tool NotiFind® was named Notification System of the Year by the DRI International Commission. SunGard has also had some success at the annual Business Continuity Awards, appearing on the shortlist for four categories including Excellence in Infrastructure Management, Most Innovative Solution – Enterprise Cloud Services, Most Innovative Product – Dedicated Virtualised Workplace Recovery and Crisis Strategy of the Year – Olympics Strategy of the Year.

SunGard Shortlisted for Awards
24.05.2012
SunGard AS shortlisted for 2 Awards - European Award for Managed Services and Best New product at the Soctland IS awards

SunGard wins a DRI International Award of Excellence
24.05.2012
SunGard wins a DRI International Award of Excellence

Businesses Set for Olympic Hurdle Over Employee Absenteeism
30.04.2012
UK organisations are struggling to cope with Olympics staffing challenges, as many employees (21%) are willing to take unauthorised time off to watch high profile events. Even the risk of being caught is not a deterrence, and UK bosses admit that almost a third of skivers are likely to go unpunished.

SunGard Availability Services Wins Cisco Cloud Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2012
23.04.2012
SunGard Availability Services today announced that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit theatre award for Cloud Partner of the Year in the service provider category.  Cisco unveiled the award at its annual channel partner conference in San Diego, California.

SunGard Availability Services Expands Enterprise Cloud Services
11.04.2012
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leader in Information Availability, today announced the introduction of Managed Workflow – a further enhancement to the built-in resilience of SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services. Managed Workflow allows customers to modify all aspects of their cloud environments, as business needs dictate, through a dedicated portal – including infrastructure modifications, the addition of new virtual machines or storage, changes to firewall policy and the support of new business applications. This will help proactively reduce the risk and exposure associated with making system changes to live cloud environments.

SunGard Launches Fully-Managed Recovery Programme to Support the ‘Always On’ Enterprise
04.04.2012
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity, today announces the launch of its Managed Recovery Programme (MRP) across Europe, developed to support customers’ business availability and eliminate issues associated with recovering complex IT environments. The launch is the latest example of SunGard’s commitment to both enhance and standardise service excellence on a global basis, and follows on from the 2011 roll-out of its Enterprise Cloud Services

Power and Communication Failures Continue to Disrupt UK Workplaces
22.03.2012
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today revealed that for the second year running that office disruptions such as power and communication failures are the main cause for invoking business continuity plans, with incidents rising by six percent in 2011.

SunGard selected by UK Government to Support G-Cloud Initiative
19.03.2012
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today announced it has been selected as a vendor to the UK government’s G-Cloud framework to deliver Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Specialist Cloud Services to the public sector.

Is Your Business Prepared for the Olympics? Your Employees Don't Think So
07.03.2012
Research sponsored by SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, reveals the overwhelming disconnect between businesses and employees as they prepare for the inevitable working life disruptions during the Olympic Games, and an admission among many businesses that they’re expecting cracks to appear in their supply chains.

Only nine weeks left for UK businesses to prepare for the Olympics
01.02.2012
With the start of the Olympics less than six months away, SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, is urging UK businesses to prepare now to ensure they are prepared for the potential disruption caused by the Olympic Games.

SunGard Offers CIOs Cloud Proof of Concept
13.12.2011
SunGard Availability Services is offering an initiative for CIOs to test the benefits of a cloud computing environment in its most resilient and flexible form.

Demand for Workplace Recovery Moves Up UK Businesses Agenda
06.12.2011

SunGard sees demand for Dedicated Workplace Recovery increase by 370% in the past year as organisations plan for business disruptions in 2012


Business Continuity plans are in place - but most execs see room for improvement
07.09.2011
A new Sourceforconsulting.com report published today (6th September 2011) has found that despite the majority of C-suite executives surveyed (82 per cent)  having plans in place to get critical business processes back up and running after an incident,  three quarters (75 per cent) see significant room for improvement in their business continuity processes.

SunGard Launches Dedicated Recover Anywhere
02.09.2011
Helping Businesses to Effectively Mitigate Widespread Disruption Such as Civil Unrest, Snow, Public Sector Disputes and Pandemics

UK CIOs Still Lack Confidence In Cloud
03.08.2011
Concerns Persist Over Cloud Model Amid Bad Experiences Reveals SunGard Availability Services Research

SunGard Availability Services Announces Expansion into India
19.07.2011

Two Workplace Recovery Centres Will Serve a Major International Bank and Meet Increasing Demand for High Levels of Off-Shore Resilience 


SunGard Availability Services Builds Out Enterprise-Class Shared Cloud in Europe
14.07.2011
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability, cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and business continuity services, announced the launch of its enterprise-class shared cloud in Europe. Built on the same principles as SunGard’s successful private cloud, the new shared environment provides customers with a cost-effective and flexible way of accessing cloud services on SunGard’s highly resilient infrastructure, with the ability to quickly and significantly scale resources.

UK CIOs wary of cloud hype
25.05.2011
CIOs’ top challenges exactly the same as in pre-cloud era, reveals SunGard Availability Services research.

SunGard Expands Livingston Recovery Centre
18.05.2011
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today announced the expansion of its Livingston Workplace Recovery Centre, increasing the volume of Workplace Recovery space it can offer to organisations within Scotland.

Communications Failures and Power Outages Top List of Business Disruptions
06.04.2011
Workplace Incidents, Not IT Issues, Now Main Cause of Downtime for UK Organisations

SunGard Availability Services Appoints Chris Higgins and Declan Sharpe to its UK and Ireland Management Team
28.03.2011
SunGard Availability Services announced today that it has appointed Chris Higgins as customer services director and Declan Sharpe as senior vice president,  sales and UK sales director.

SunGard Availability Services Retains BS 25999 Certification
26.01.2011
SunGard Availability Services has retained its certification against BS 25999-2:2007, the British Standard for Business Continuity Management (BCM), across its UK operations.

Cloud: Resilience Trumps ROI for CFOs
05.01.2011
SunGard Availability Services Sponsored Research Reveals Financial Decision-Makers Looking for Cloud Providers to Demonstrate Data Security and Availability.

Demand for Power and High Quality London Data Centre Space Accelerates SunGard Expansion
14.12.2010
SunGard Availability Services Enhances Power Capability and Adds 8,000ft² of Data Centre Space to Meet Increased Demand for Managed Hosting and Cloud Services.

UK CFOs still wary of the cloud
30.11.2010

SunGard Availability Services research among UK Chief Financial Officers reveals major concerns around data security and lack of control holding CFOs back from cloud-related IT investments.


SunGard Launches Recover Anywhere
09.11.2010
New service will help increase worker productivity in the face of business disruption.

SunGard Availability Services Launches Replication as a Service
14.10.2010
On-demand Cloud Offering Helps Ensure Immediate Availability of Vital Business Data at a Reduced Cost.

Cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service Can Help Save Businesses up to 55% of IT Operations Spend
18.08.2010
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability, demonstrates how a mid-sized organisation moving its existing production IT environment to SunGard’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model can, on average, reduce its total IT running costs by between 35% – 55%*. The calculations have been based on real-life numbers across entire business budgets and SunGard’s experience of working with 10,000 customers.

Business Disruptions Escalate in 2009 - Workplace Disruptions Overtake Technology for First Time as Cause of Business Interruption
02.06.2010
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today released its annual analysis of major causes of business disruption in the UK.  The analysis of SunGard’s 2009 invocations* log has found that, for the first time ever, more business interruptions are being caused as a result of workplace disruptions rather than by technology.

SunGard Availability Services Completes Its Biggest Ever PC Refresh
18.05.2010
SunGard Availability Services has recently completed its fourth desktop technology refresh in ten years, deploying 7,400 new PCs across its UK Recovery Centres. This latest investment in SunGard’s Workplace Recovery services demonstrates SunGard’s ongoing commitment to providing its customers the best possible alternative workplace solution following disruption to their normal office environments.

SunGard Availability Services Claims Top Accolades at Business Continuity Awards
13.05.2010
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, has been named Business Continuity Service Provider of the Year for a record 7th time at the annual Business Continuity Awards. SunGard also took home a further two awards; Excellence in Infrastructure Management and Most Innovative Product for its Secure Hosted Dealing/ Dealing Room Recovery offering.

SunGard Acquires Hosting 365
12.03.2010
SunGard  has acquired 365 Hosting Limited, a Dublin, Ireland-based cloud computing and data centre services company which trades as ‘Hosting 365’.  The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard’s results.

IPC Partners With SunGard to Launch Hosted Dealing and Upgrade Trading Floor Disaster Recovery Solutions
02.11.2009
IPC Systems, Inc, a leading provider of trading communications solutions to the world’s leading financial services firms and global enterprises, today announced a contract with SunGard Availability Services to help provide a suite of customisable disaster recovery (DR) and hosted dealing solutions to SunGard customers in the UK.  SunGard is the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services.

SunGard Availability Services Launches 'SunGard as a Service'
12.10.2009
SunGard Availability Services today launched SunGard-as-a-Service, its fully managed ‘private cloud’ service in the UK.  SunGard-as-a-Service draws on SunGard Availability Services’ 30 year heritage in Information Availability, IT managed services, and experience working with 10,000 customers worldwide. 

SunGard Availability Services Adds 10,000ft² of Data Centre Space to Meet Increased Demand for Managed Services
30.09.2009
To meet the increasing demand for its Managed Services, SunGard Availability Services, has announced that it will be adding an extra 10,000ft² of highly resilient data centre space to its UK infrastructure. With the average UK third party data centre offering 2,000-4,000ft²* of space, this represents a significant addition to SunGard’s existing portfolio of highly resilient data centre space, which totals over 250,000 ft² in the UK alone

Risk Management Hits the Boardroom Agenda as Recession Breeds Greater Threats to Businesses
22.06.2009
A poll carried out for an Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and SunGard Availability Services ‘round table’ discussion on Tuesday 16 June has found that supply chain issues and the impact of redundancies on business effectiveness have emerged as the two biggest risks to business operations as a result of the recession.

SunGard Expands Network of Resilient Data Centres
17.06.2009
SunGard Availability Services added another highly resilient data centre to its UK portfolio: Technology Centre 3 (TC3), in Surrey.  The purpose built data centre for Information Availability provides SunGard customers with additional data centre facilities, dedicated to delivering managed IT hosting including high availability solutions and cloud computing services.

Data Corruption is Fastest Growing Threat to Business
03.06.2009
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today released its annual analysis of major causes of business disruption.  The analysis of SunGard’s invocations* log has found that data corruption is now the fastest growing cause of business interruptions – after more than doubling in 2008.

SunGard Availability Services Crowned Business Continuity Service Provider of the Year for Record 6th Time
28.05.2009
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider in Information Availability and the world’s fifth largest global IT managed services provider*,  was on Wednesday night named “Business Continuity Service Provider of the Year” for an unprecedented sixth time at the annual Business Continuity Awards.

SunGard Availability Services Managed Services Offering Shortlisted for Two Awards
23.04.2009
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and Business Continuity services, was last night nominated for the ‘Best Risk Mitigation Service Provider’ category at the Broad Group’s Data Centre Europe Awards.

Recovery Plans Come Into Force As Snow Threatens UK Business Operations
02.02.2009
As millions of UK workers remain at home today, unable to travel in to work, business continuity expert SunGard Availability Services is issuing advice to help businesses minimise disruption and ensure continued operations. 

Consumers Reject Favourite Brands As Customer Service Expectations Increase
22.01.2009
UK consumers are demanding greater levels of customer service and availability as a result of the credit crunch and are increasingly prepared to turn their back on businesses which cannot provide it.

London School of Economics selects SunGard for First Class Information Availability and Recovery
04.11.2008
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of information availability and business continuity services, today announced that it has won a five year contract with The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to help ensure that the University can continue operations in the wake of unplanned disruptions, whether man-made or natural.

SunGard Announces Plans to Increase Information Availability Presence Within UK
21.10.2008
To meet the increasing demand for Information Availability services, SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, announced that it will make major investments in its UK infrastructure and service delivery team. 

Bouncebackability Quota Low Amongst Small Businesses (national)
28.08.2008
Few UK small businesses are ready to bounce back if they have a business disruption, even though it would lose them business. As consumers, four out of five respondents say they would walk off to another supplier if they could not get the goods or services they wanted immediately. This is the conclusion of the first ever Bouncebackability Index* from SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of information availability and business continuity services.

Sentrum Announces Agreement With SunGard Availability Services UK Limited
18.08.2008
Sentrum, a specialist in data centre solutions, has today confirmed that SunGard Availability Services – the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services – will be taking substantial space in its recently acquired data centre facility in Woking.

SunGard Speeds Up Recovery By Delivering Fully Restored Servers To The Doorstep
23.07.2008
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today unveiled Total Recovery, a service which helps customers in the UK to reduce their Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) by delivering fully restored and configured servers to their doorstep following a business disruption.  Previously organisations had to retrieve data and servers from separate locations, resulting in time delays and unnecessary travel for key staff within an organisation. 

SunGard Availability Services to Open New Workplace Recovery Centre in Borehamwood
15.07.2008
To offer increased flexibility in business continuity planning, SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, announced that it will open a workplace recovery centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire on September 16th.

Number of Risks to UK Businesses Increases Over Past 10 Years
25.06.2008
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today published a report into the major causes of business disruption over the last ten years.  Analysis of SunGard's invocation logs highlights how the causes of customer invocations* (disaster declarations) have changed in the years from 1998-2007, with businesses invoking against a broader range of risks. 

Optima Legal Expands its Disaster Recovery Function to Cover Multiple Jurisdictions
14.05.2008
National law firm Optima Legal has partnered with SunGard Availability Services to enable the delivery of an innovative, robust and reliable disaster recovery and business continuity plan to cover the firm’s multi-jurisdictional operation. 

SunGard Recognised for 10 Years' Excellence in Business Continuity
09.05.2008
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today announced it was awarded the Tenth Anniversary Award for Outstanding Excellence at the Business Continuity Awards last night (8th May).  In the judges’ view, SunGard’s commitment to fostering innovation and good practice in a rapidly-changing industry positioned it “head and shoulders” above rival contenders. 

Hardware Failure Remains Most Serious Threat to UK Businesses
02.04.2008
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, today published its second annual report on the major causes of business disruptions. Analysis of SunGard’s invocation logs has found that whilst hardware failures remained the biggest cause of customer invocations* (disaster declarations), the proportion of flood-related invocations grew dramatically in 2007, up from six percent in 2006 to 12 percent in 2007.

SunGard Availability Services Launches Remote Console
26.03.2008
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, has launched Remote Console, a new product which helps organisations to securely administer an IT recovery via the Internet from anywhere in the world where there is connectivity.

SunGard Availability Services Appoints Steve Lea As UK Financial Director
20.02.2008
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, has appointed Steve Lea as UK finance and administration director.

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