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Key Considerations for Leveraging Virtualization and Keeping Your Applications Available
Today’s IT organizations are faced with the daunting task of optimizing all aspects of their departments, including people, processes and technology. Optimizing and streamlining server utilization through virtualization represents one particularly exciting example. We found that one of the most popular usage models for virtualization is to drive down server procurements in development, test and production environments. When this model is followed, future server purchases are avoided; instead, new workloads are established on existing systems.

Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina: How to Maintain Operations During a Regional Disaster
The intensity of the 2005 hurricane season was unprecedented—with storms hitting at more than twice the frequency and severity of typical seasons. The normal seasonal average is 10 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes, according to the National Hurricane Center. But from the beginning of June to the end of November, there were 27 named storms—surpassing the record of 21 set in 1933. Thirteen of these storms were classified as hurricanes, edging out the previous record of 12 set in 1969. And three reached Category 5 status with wind speeds greater than 155 m.p.h. at some point during the arc of the storm.

Cyber Security for State Govenments
Delaware Department of Technology and Information Exercise Sharpens Skills for Cyber Attack Prevention, Detection, Response, and Recovery

Risk Never Sleeps: Managing Risk in an Uncertain World
An IT manager starts off the week with a hardware failure on a server running the firm’s CRM application. Sales and marketing, as well as senior management, are flustered – they can’t access the application to contact key customers regarding a change to a scheduled product delivery date. The IT manager had a replacement server on hand—a rarity in today’s tough financial environment—and was able to get the new hardware up and running quickly. The IT team needed to cut some corners in the interest of time – they decided security checks and data de-duplication efforts could wait. They were able to meet their prescribed recovery time objective, and more importantly, the business managers stopped complaining, so the IT team felt the crisis was resolved positively.

Planning to Stay in Business: Strategies for Tiering Applications and Data for Maximum Availability
Today’s competitive, regulated and economically stressed business landscape means IT organizations may be living on a razor’s edge where they are challenged to address increasing internal and customer demands with flat – or decreasing – budgets. CIOs and IT departments face daily pressures to improve application and data availability while also balancing costs and risks for the IT infrastructure that runs critical business processes.

Mastering Recovery
Organizations everywhere are discovering that it’s not easy managing IT requirements these days. Technology is moving forward at an unprecedented rate and our dependence on it continues to grow. Management is under the gun to evaluate and achieve best-in-class solutions for everything from system maintenance to ongoing operations. Not only that, but the technical infrastructure is the very foundation for most routine aspects of business, so you simply can’t function without your computing and telecommunications resources. However, budgets remain flat, forcing everyone to do more with less.

Crisis Management Checklist
This material suggests high-level issues that you should consider if you are in response mode. SunGard Availability Services is providing this as a public service.

Key Considerations for Disaster Recovery Planning
It used to be that disaster recovery fell solely within the domain of technical specialists and engineers. That’s no longer true; these days, it’s imperative to share this important responsibility among both executive and IT management. By weighing these “key considerations” and the answers to them, your company is taking the first steps toward protecting its technical and business environments and improving its Information Availability strategy— the ability to keep people and information connected throughout the enterprise—no matter what.

Pandemic Response Checklist
Collect and review existing business priorities, strategies and business availability preparedness. Evaluate the potential risks and vulnerabilities based on a Pandemic flu disruption to people, processes, and technology. Assess the potential impacts a Pandemic situation may have upon your organization and determine appropriate strategies to mitigate areas of concern. Document the actions necessary to prepare for an increased Pandemic threat level.

H1N1 Response Checklist
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the current level of the H1N1 influenza pandemic alert to Phase 6 on June 11, 2009. As a direct result, all organizations should consider the immediate activation of their pandemic preparedness plans.

Incident Management Checklist
The Incident Management Team provides direction and support to all affected business units. This centralized approach ensures that recovery requirements for affected business units are met while minimizing confusion and duplication of effort.

An Executive Guide: Driving Value and Delivering Results with Managed IT Services
In virtually every sector—from healthcare and financial services to manufacturing and government—there’s a steady drumbeat to deliver better results with fewer resources. With the potential to increase efficiency, power new business/service models and enhance agility, technology is the one of the most popular—and effective—means of doing more with less.

From the Front Lines: Lessons Learned During Mock Disasters
One of the best ways to test—and refine—these capabilities is through an incident management exercise. These can run the gamut from high-level walkthroughs to full-scale, interactive simulations. The latter—in which the team responds in real-time to a fictional, but continually evolving, incident—is the best method for testing preparedness. SunGard Availability Services has conducted numerous walkthroughs for individual organizations, as well as full-scale simulations for both individual organizations and conference groups.

Keys to Pandemic Preparedness
Pandemic Response Planning, Enterprise Availability Program Review for Pandemics, and Incident Management Exercises can help you establish greater control.

Making Testing Less Taxing
Over the past three decades, SunGard has witnessed the Information Availability industry evolve all the way from a single mainframe to an imperative for every major business. We asked Ross Pincus, the Philadelphia manager of Testing Services / Recovery Assistance Services about where the best opportunities remain for companies to achieve greater testing efficiencies, and how bringing a testing expert into the process can help cut costs and improve preparedness.

Eight Steps to Prepare IT for a Pandemic
The pre-pandemic phase is a little bit like an approaching hurricane – you still have some time to prepare, but there is a sense of urgency as the WHO levels are increased. If your organization does not have a monitoring activity in place, consider implementing one.

Nine Steps to Prepare for a Pandemic
The pre-pandemic phase is a little bit like a hurricane – you still have some time to prepare, but there is a sense of urgency as the WHO levels are increased. Determine first who within your organization will make critical decisions in the face of a pandemic impacting your operations, and work with any corporate pandemic leaders or crisis management structure. Then understand your vulnerabilities looking at systems and data to some extent – but particularly at process and people.

7 Key Considerations in Selecting a Colocation Provider

IT organizations are recognizing the benefits of selecting a colocation provider for their mission-critical equipment in a data center. Discover what you need to consider when selecting a colocation provider for your organization.


Cloud Computing: Resiliency is the Key to Success
This white paper will briefly explain what cloud computing is, review the facts which underlie the hyperbole, and will consider both the benefits and challenges that it brings to organizations.

What About the People
Organizations are starting to place renewed emphasis on BC/DR plans that better account for their people, who most consider a company’s most valuable asset. The BC/DR planning specifically centered around the people of an organization is commonly referred to as workforce continuity. Read more about it and why it's critical to your organization in this informative eBook!

Ensuring Security and Compliance Throughout an Organization

In today's corporate environment, CIOs and security managers need to protect information assets such as intellectual property (IP) and personally identifiable information (PII). Key business drivers for data protection include: Regulatory compliance; competition in the market; legal and recovery costs associated with breaches; and Brand risk. So how do risk managers address these issues? Find out in the eBook.


Why Disaster Recovery Readiness is Important

Focused on short-term pressures to make budget cuts, it often escapes companies that disaster preparedness needs may actually be greater during economic slowdowns. For instance, many organizations are reducing costs by consolidating equipment. But because of e-discovery and compliance requirements, data must still be retained even with a cap on spending. Read more about why Disaster Recovery readiness is so critical to your organization. Download the whitepaper.


Disaster Recovery Planning is a Business Imperative

Organizations can’t control whether or not they will be affected by a natural disaster, power outage or other unplanned incident, but they can work to help ensure their business is prepared to respond to and recover from these events with minimal impact. Disaster recovery planning is an organizational imperative that can help reduce risk and help companies effectively respond to situations that threaten to disrupt essential business processes. Find out more. Download the white paper today.


Virtualized Disaster Recovery: Obvious Benefits, Hidden Obstacles

Just like their non-virtualized counterparts, virtualized infrastructures require a plan for when a business disruption or disaster strikes. Also like their non-virtualized counterparts, local redundancy while enhanced due to virtualization-enabled high availability and pooling of resources, only goes so far. It can never be a substitute for a second geographically segregated disaster recovery site. Download and read this executive level overview of Virtual Disaster Recovery (VDR) benefits and planning considerations.


Five Steps for Effective Business Continuity Planning

It is imperative that SMBs recognize and plan for the potential risks that exist in today’s IT-focused climate. Download the whitepaper to discover the five steps you need to consider when developing a business continuity plan for your organization.


SunGard’s Five Steps to Storage and Data Protection Optimization
SunGard, though most commonly recognized as a leader in disaster recovery planning and services, also boasts a highly skilled consulting services organization. Its storage services group has developed a five step program that can help reduce storage OPEX and CAPEX and drive tighter alignment with the business. Anyone trying to balance rapidly growing infrastructure with the need to reduce costs should find SunGard’s service appealing.

SunGard introduces business continuity assessment services, new dedupe capability
SunGard's Availability Services division has been making some technology upgrades to its business continuity services. Following on the heels of its recent 365 Hosting (otherwise known as Hosting365) acquisition, and new Secure2Disk offering, comes a new business continuity management software platform. While so many cloud providers are producing assessment services for workloads that belong in the cloud, SunGard has introduced an assessment service for enterprise that measures the resilience of vendors and readiness of employees in business continuity planning.

 
 
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