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SunGard LDRPS Enables Holistic Business Continuity Planning at Leading Bank
The business continuity planning team at a leading diversified financial services company is charged with establishing the methodology, tools, policy, compliance and reporting utilized in disaster preparedness throughout the United States. The financial services firm deployed LDRPS® (Living Disaster Recovery Planning System) from SunGard Availability Services to create all preparedness plans across the enterprise. The SunGard software enables the bank to centrally develop and manage business continuity planning – supporting 500 U.S. locations, 5,000 plans and close to 7,000 users.

Halifax Health Readies for Complete Systems Recovery with SunGard Availability Services
Learn how Halifax Health was able to switch its critical medical records from a 60-hour to a 24-hour recovery time objective (RTO) in the event of a systems crash or disaster thanks to the shift from traditional tape media for backup operations to disk storage – a potentially risky decision. Halifax Health relies on SunGard Availability Services’ Secure2DiskSM backup and recovery solution, powered by EMC®’s Data Domain®, to provide onsite operational recovery and rapid offsite disaster recovery.

Florida Hospital Keeps the United States’ Busiest Hospital System Up and Running Even When Hurricanes Hit
When Florida Hospital needed a disaster recovery solution that offered uninterrupted systems access and data integrity during powerful storms, SunGard's hosted business continuity services improved the availability time from days to minutes for critical systems.

Maintaining Availability By Testing IT Security With SunGard
To help ensure continuous availability of its information, a software company had SunGard subject its systems to a full penetration test and measure them against SunGard's proprietary model for Information Security--including 50 discrete areas of evaluation.

Addressing the Root Cause of a Healthcare Information Availability Challenge
For a large regional healthcare provider with a widespread, decentralized IT operation (including 1,000 servers), a fast recovery could be an ambitious goal. But with a comprehensive Information Availability solution in place, it became achievable.

Helping a Healthcare Organization Immunize its IT Operations
Provena Health was required to meet demanding targets for availability and security across an integrated system of six acute care hospitals and 14 long-term care and residential centers. Using hotsite, consulting and SunGard Paragon, they've been able to.

Utilizing Information Availability to Help Ensure High Customer Satisfaction
When this mid-size financial organization needed to ensure that its core systems would stay up and running, making any downtime transparent to its thousands of mutual funds customers, they turned to SunGard for an integrated Information Availability solution.

Meeting a Financial Institution's Specific Availability Requirements
First Citizens Bank required an advanced availability solution with specific budget and control requirements.  SunGard developed a broad solution architecture that incorporates recovery, replication and consulting services – under one roof, with a single contract.

Meeting Complex Financial Institution Challenges
As financial institutions strive for continuous Information Availability, they face complex continuity and recovery challenges. Learn how one firm partnered with SunGard on a comprehensive solution to shorten recovery point and time objectives.

Making the Right Move: Major Disaster Spurs Hancock Bank to Find a New Home
A “total loss” event -- Hurricane Katrina – forced Hancock Bank to find a temporary home for its IT infrastructure while building a state-of-the-art facility from scratch; the company’s infrastructure interdependencies meant a phased move was out of the question.

Ensuring Recovery Confidence: JMB Companies Turns to a Virtualized Solution
JMB Companies had a viable disaster recovery plan – but it had two data centers with the costs that come with doubling up on equipment. And two high-demanding production database applications led to unsuccessful testing and an overall lack of trust that the plan would work when the firm needed it. Facing flattening IT budgets but increased service demands, JMB Companies turned to SunGard for help.

Business Continuity Testing Made Easier with PLANet
Many credit unions build business continuity plans but fail to take the next step. As the FFIEC explains in their most-recent BCP Booklet, “Risk monitoring ensures a BCP is viable through testing,independent review and periodic updating.” In addition, testing helps financial institutions adjust recovery time objectives by giving realistic, tested time estimates needed to complete tasks.

Eagle Bank
The most important way Eagle Bank continues to serve its community is through its commitment to business continuity, which ensures that its branches north and west of Boston, MA will always be open and ready for business as expected. That’s why Vice President Paula Chesbrough recently chose to rebuild and expand business continuity plans using PLANet for community banks.

Small Credit Union Builds Big Plans with PLANet
Small credit unions like Family First Credit Union have numerous challenges when compared to some of their larger counterparts. Resources are stretched thin, competition is fierce and specific expertise is often scarce. But sometimes, what might seem disadvantageous is actually an advantage. For example; with business continuity planning, smaller credit unions have the ability to interchange personnel more readily.

Mergent Turns to SunGard for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Providing time-sensitive information from global trading markets to customers worldwide is central to Mergent’s business. Mergent needed a way to address both high availability and disaster recovery in a way that did not overtax their small IT team. Mergent turned to SunGard to deliver a strategic solution that lets the IT team focus on areas most important to the business while also being assured availability needs were addressed.

Document Service provider Relies on SunGard's Enterprise Managed Services to Address Business Challenges and Prepare for Future Growth
Having experienced a number of reliability issues with their original hosting provider, this organization demanded a highly secure, robust and flexible IT infrastructure from an established expert. Fully managed IT infrastructure services allowed the organization’s IT team to get back to business and focus on their rapidly growing business.

New England SaaS Provider Relies on SunGard's Managed Services to Achieve Uptime and Peace of Mind
Increasingly severe power and Internet outages threatened this organization’s critical applications and put their customers’ data in jeopardy. Colocation services for the organization’s production environment allowed the company’s IT team to get back to business and focus on more strategic priorities.

SunGard Helps Keep Atlantis Health Plan’s Business in Business after Disaster Strikes
Atlantis Health Plan experienced a fire that destroyed its office including the company’s entire IT and telephony infrastructure. The company needed to recover business operations quickly – but also a long-term facility for customer-facing staff to work from during the time it took to relocate to new office space.

SunGard Availability Services Keeps Mitchell 1 on Road to Delivering Customer Satisfaction
Automotive provider of on-demand web-based solutions delivers 24/7 availability to 87,000 aftermarket repair customers across the United States utilizing colocation services to increase systems uptime and data availability, in addition to disaster recovery and workforce continuity services -- supporting a 99.999% availability service level agreement commitment to customers.

 
 
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