Choosing your IaaS Provider

As the cloud is still an evolving proposition, choosing the right cloud service provider is crucial to balancing the freedom and flexibility of the cloud with the availability and resilience demanded by your organisation.

When evaluating cloud computing providers, it pays to be wary of headline promises of unlimited scalability or 100% uptime (check the fine print for a string of conditions or loopholes). And bear in mind that a fully self-service model isn't always right for all businesses. 

While the cloud may be new territory for your enterprise, SunGard Availability Services’ cloud solutions are built on over three decades of keeping leading businesses in major industries “always on” and in control of their critical systems. Our Private Cloud Services (PCS) has been 100% available since its launch in 2009.

	Performance - SunGard’s iron-clad, enterprise-grade SLAs are truly fit for business and stipulate a minimum of 99.95% availability.  All elements of our cloud are supported, so your SLA represents a meaningful pledge we can wholeheartedly stand by, and you can rely on.
	Security - Enjoy full transparency into the geographical location of your systems and data in one of our SAS-70 Type II facilities.  You can be confident that our cloud environment is highly secure and compliant, with full audit trails, managed firewall, virtual private network connectivity, activity logging, monitoring, detection and that your data is retrievable within agreed timescales.
	Simplicity - As your Cloud infrastructure provider, SunGard puts a dedicated team of service delivery managers and 24/7 telephone support at your disposal.  That means just one call whenever you need anything, and the assurance that your request will be escalated to the right level immediately.
	Value - Benefit from enterprise calibre technology, with round-the-clock-monitoring and support provided by experienced IT professionals with sought-after skills. Specify the availability levels and recovery times your business demands so you only pay for the compute resource and protection you need.
	Consulting - Choose SunGard as your cloud service provider and receive a consultative approach including a 4 step migration process (Discovery, Assessment, Service Design and Migration), which will help shape your IT Infrastructure to achieve increased flexibility, availability and resilience.
	Stability - We’re an established, financially stable, global cloud provider, with vast scale and a formidable provenance in information availability that mean you can trust us to be there for you over the long haul.

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