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HarrisData Turns to SunGard Availability Services Managed Hosting to Deliver
Enterprise Applications to Customers
SunGard Expert Discusses Information Availability Strategies for IBM iSeries
Systems at HarrisData User Conference
WAYNE, Pa., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise software developer, HarrisData,
has selected SunGard Availability Services to provide a fully managed hosting
solution to operate enterprise software applications for HarrisData customers.
SunGard AdvancedHosting will help HarrisData customers run their RTI-Software
solutions, including CustomerFirst(R), SalesFirst(R) and WebFirst(R), in a
highly available, redundant environment with reduced demands on their own IT
resources.
"By working with SunGard, we moved from a strictly colocation provider to a
fully managed services solution, enabling our internal resources to have more
time to focus on developing software products," said Lane Nelson, president at
HarrisData. "SunGard has managed hosting facilities, expertise and
responsiveness to meet the real-time, on-demand needs of our customers as they
utilize HarrisData solutions in business operations."
Included among the application services SunGard will provide are operating
system and database management. HarrisData will tap the following
capabilities from SunGard's managed services portfolio:
-- Hosting Services. SunGard combines a redundant backbone network with
highly secure, always available hosting facilities and equipment --
configured and managed to HarrisData requirements.
-- Network Services. SunGard provides a protocol-independent 25,000-mile
global network to connect to HarrisData customers.
-- Managed Security Services. SunGard utilizes advanced security
technologies to help protect HarrisData customer systems, applications
and data from threats.
-- Storage Services. SunGard services will support HarrisData customer
needs for file sharing, primary storage, compliance management, backup
recovery and testing.
SunGard provides a proven hosted services environment for enterprise software,
Web 2.0 and Software-as-a-Service companies. In North America, SunGard has
more than 30 managed services facilities, thousands of managed services
customers and an infrastructure that provides high availability for enterprise
managed services.
SunGard Expert Speaking at HarrisData Conference
Biff Myre, director of Availability Solutions at SunGard Availability
Services, will be presenting "Information Availability Strategies for System
iSeries Users" at the HarrisData User Conference. Mr. Myre will speak on May
18 at 2:30 p.m. and discuss how enterprise software end-users can achieve
higher levels of availability for IT production and disaster recovery
environments.
"SunGard has extensive experience in addressing the information availability
and recovery needs of iSeries customers. We help companies leverage the
shared IT infrastructure of SunGard, expertly staffed 24/7, for recovery
environments. This helps customers eliminate the capital expenditures
required to build and maintain secondary IT sites, and positions SunGard to
assist with or perform restoration of their systems and networks during a
disaster," said Mr. Myre.
About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT
services, information availability consulting services and business continuity
management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe.
With four million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard
assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors
prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their
computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel
partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have
uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do
business. To learn more, visit www.availability.sungard.com or call
1-800-468-7483.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies.
SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including
the world's 25 largest financial services companies.
SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services,
higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster
recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting
services and business continuity management software.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune
500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company
on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by
Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications
software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized
SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more
information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.
*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker
http://www.datamonitor.com
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subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are
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SOURCE SunGard Availability Services
Valeria Maltoni, Director, Marketing Communications, SunGard Availability
Services, +1-484-582-2441, valeria.maltoni@sungard.com
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