London 23 April 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. The nomination follows the announcement that SunGard has also been shortlisted in the Data Centre Strategy category at the Business Continuity Awards, one of nine categories in which it has made the shortlist. SunGard was recently rated the fifth largest managed hosting provider by Tier 1 Research.
Commenting on the awards nominations, Keith Tilley, Managing Director UK and Executive Vice President of SunGard Availability Services said, “These awards nominations highlight the strength of our managed services offering and are testament to the expertise and hard work of our staff. We are constantly investing in ensuring our data centres remain best in class and meet and exceed our customer expectations. By outsourcing key data centre operations to a trusted managed services provider, rather than investing in building their own data centre infrastructures, businesses are increasingly recognising that they can focus on maintaining growth, safe in the knowledge that their resilience is guaranteed.”
SunGard currently offers four highly resilient Technology Centres in the UK: the London Technology Centre (LTC) and TC2, TC4 in Elland, West Yorkshire; and TC3, an outer London data centre currently being built in Woking. With over 3 million square feet of operations space across 20 facilities within the UK, SunGard’s shared services model makes data centre space available at a fraction of the cost of any one company trying to buy, resource and power its own dedicated facility.
*Tier 1 research Spring '09 - Managed Hosting Global Report.