Wayne, Pa., November 01, 2011 – SunGard Availability Services today announced it has been certified as a Cisco Master Managed Services Channel Partner (MSCP). This official designation identifies SunGard Enterprise Cloud Services as meeting the highest level of achievement for partners delivering Cisco technologies as a managed solution. SunGard was also certified as a Cisco Cloud Provider to offer Cisco Powered IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) Cloud, which recognizes SunGard’s delivery of exceptional cloud services in a multitenant environment to end customers.
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The Cisco MSCP program is designed to support partners who sell and deliver managed and cloud services based on Cisco technology. Additionally, as a Cisco approved Cloud Provider, SunGard’s cloud offering is deployed using a Cisco validated infrastructure. The rigorous certification process includes an objective, independent audit of SunGard facilities and SunGard's managed service Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes, procedures and system approach.
“SunGard’s investment in Cisco Certification ranks it among an elite group of channel partners with the resources to deploy, manage and support services for multiple technologies,” said Edison Peres, senior vice president of worldwide channels at Cisco.
SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services are built on best-in-class Vblock technology from VMware, Cisco and EMC (VCE). The solution delivers managed compute, network, storage and security services that support customer production applications. SunGard’s Managed Services, which include Cisco technologies, provide fully managed, end-to-end infrastructure solutions that help customers keep their IT operations – and business – nimble and responsive.
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“Being part of the global Cisco MSCP and the Cloud Partner program is a great achievement for SunGard and an additional validation of our managed services and cloud offerings,” said Rob Walters, vice president, managed services at SunGard Availability Services. “This official designation will only help to accelerate our already close partnership with Cisco.”
About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to over 9,000 customers globally. With approximately five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard Availability Services helps customers improve the resilience of their mission critical systems by designing, implementing and managing cost-effective solutions using people, process and technology to address enterprise IT availability needs. 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.sungardas.com or call 1-800-468-7483. Connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves over 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, 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 of about $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, visit www.sungard.com.
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