SUNGARD CLOUD SERVICE

SunGard Cloud Service

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Abstract

This paper discusses the SunGard availability services that assist businesses in recovering disaster and IT availability. This study also includes Online Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Managed Hosting in relation to SunGard. The paper also discusses the usefulness of Cloud service in detail.

SunGard Cloud Service

Introduction

Nowadays, treasury technology is swiftly evolving; especially while it comes to service delivery. From rapid Saas or ASP adoption, delivered solutions to the new expansion in the use of private clouds and community, companies are reappraising how they consume software.

Data maintenance and running in-house is very costly and labor intensive task, as it put lot of load on budget and IT resources. Moreover, ineffective maintenance and obsolete legacy equipment make business growth decline. The best answer to this is Cloud computing that provides security, scalability and IT agility to companies who looks for outsourcing IT environment.

Discussion

SunGard provides business continuity management services, IT consulting, managed services, cloud service and disaster recovery. SunGard is headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The company provides more than 80 facilities across the global and has more than 10,000 customers in Europe and North America. SunGard have enterprise-class IT infrastructure and 5 million sq. feet of hardened data centre space (Hiles, 2011).

SunGard Availability Services is the leading and pioneer in providing information availability solutions. The company invented discovery recovery in 1978, which has developed into availability services. It also offers an inclusive variety of information availability solutions such as business continuity, professional and IT services. The company also provides expertise in defining business continuity strategies, development of specialized software for data security and related requirements, and availability requirements identification.

The information availability solutions of SunGard facilitate organizations by interrupting their operations to reduce their exposure to threats through hardware or network failures, power failure, breaches of security, data loss and intense occasions ranging from terrorism to disaster.

Every business is unique when it comes to disaster recovery. SunGard offer solutions that come from integrating available experience, expertise and with business understanding. Solutions are designed to be flexible to adjust with hybrid and complex systems based on business needs. They are aimed to fulfill the complete range of recovery point objectives and recovery time that is needed.

Flexible disaster recovery services at SunGard includes (1) Planning and Software: develop software in accordance with business and allow developing, maintaining and implementing a business sustainability plan effectively; (2) MRP (Managed Recovery Program): SunGard experts manage program from planning to recovery from interruptions through its entire lifecycle; (3) Cloud Recovery: The safe and grievance Recover2CloudSM services suite controls the cost and power savings of platform of an enterprise-grade cloud and ensure the guarantee of recovery; (4) Replication and Backup: provide a wide-range of recovery options and flexible backup such as storage, server and online backup replication; (5) Infrastructure Recovery: it operates with flexibility to create sophisticated infrastructure environment with the capacity of meaningful resilience; and (6) Workforce Continuity: SunGard offers solutions of comprehensive workforce continuity when ...