Cristina Greysman, director of channel program management at SunGard Availability Services, offers eight steps service providers should take in evaluating the processes, procedures and abilities that best fit a customer’s needs when moving to the cloud.

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Many logistics service providers are hesitant to move their data to the cloud, especially given security concerns. Joe Pampel, consulting director, SunGard Availability Services offers the benefits of moving data to the cloud and provides important first questions businesses need to ask themselves to gauge their readiness to move to the cloud.

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SunGard Availability Services has been recognized by Content2Converation and Marketo for its creative marketing campaign and innovative campaign distribution execution. Christine Nurnberger, vice president, Marketing, SunGard Availability Services said unique marketing efforts will help SunGard Availability Services alert existing and prospective customers of new services and offers.

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Big data is crucial to many organizations and while customers have less time and resources to recover, the importance of keeping disruptions to a minimum are growing. Chris Cooley, senior director and product manager at SunGard Availability Services shares the benefits of partnering with a company like SunGard Availability Services to help prioritize data, test your backups and provide disaster recovery support.

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With the recent cyberattacks on big banks, community banks need to prepare for the next online assault. Cara Camping, director of managed security services at SunGard Availability Services makes the argument for spending an upfront cost to protect financial and reputational damage.

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SunGard Availability Services published new survey results redefining the importance of operational resilience in an IDC White Paper, Lack of Operational Resilience Will Undermine Enterprise Competitiveness: A Strategy for Availability. Jack Dziak, executive vice president and general manager of Managed Services at SunGard Availability Services, comments that organizations must employ a new paradigm of operational resilience in order to stay competitive.

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SunGard Availability Services has placed an increased emphasis on the intersection of complexity, resiliency and scale to better meet customer needs. This includes the promotion of Jack Dziak to executive vice president and general manager of Managed Services, adoption of the ISO/IEC 20000 standards in February and expansion of its data center presence.

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SunGard Availability Services has continued to strengthen its services surrounding managed recovery, virtualization technology and cloud architecture to better meet customer needs. This goal is being met with the promotion of Jack Dziak to executive vice president and general manager of Managed Services, adoption of the ISO/IEC 20000 standards in February and expansion of SunGard Availability Services’ data center presence.

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Dominick Paul, vice president of strategic solutions at SunGard Availability Services, shares disaster recovery lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy including: avoiding last minute changes to your contracted hot site, concentrating on internal resource planning and preparing for the next disaster.

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As trends surrounding near shoring and offshoring continue to grow, SunGard Availability Services and Continuity Insights will survey anonymous participants to discuss the resilience of offshore operations.

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Looking back at Hurricane Sandy, Data Center Knowledge compares two companies that had vastly different experiences. One company, International Flavors & Fragrances, remembered the damage the superstorm had caused to their data centers located in Union Beach, New Jersey. Another organization and SunGard Availability Services customer, the University of Pennsylvania, recovered from the storm thanks to SunGard AS’ support.

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Migrating to the cloud has moved from an idea to reality, but it’s vital companies consider security measures when making the move. Len Whitten, director of cloud services product management at SunGard Availability Services, discusses how breaches of cloud data could prove devastating and costly, and what companies need to consider when moving to the cloud.

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Fourteen thought leaders provide their insights on how to ensure patient information is both secure and able to be recovered in the event of a disaster. Laurie Elliot, North America director of premier accounts, SunGard Availability Services, said a successful DR plan is crucial to healthcare organizations and the DR plan should reflect the people, processes and programs of the business.

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SunGard Availability Services published survey results in an IDC White Paper, “Lack of Operational Resilience Will Undermine Enterprise Competitiveness: A Strategy for Availability,” that identify the competitive advantages of establishing sophisticated systems for maintaining uninterrupted business operations. The study revealed that nearly 40 percent of line of business (LOB) and IT executives surveyed indicated "operational resilience" systems signify business and IT services that are always on and available. Jack Dziak, executive vice president and general manager of Managed Services states that organizations must employ a new hybrid IT approach to operational resilience.

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Jack Dziak, executive vice president and general manager of Managed Services gave an exclusive interview surrounding the results from the IDC White Paper, Lack of Operational Resilience Will Undermine Enterprise Competitiveness: A Strategy for Availability.” Jack and David Tapper, vice president of Outsourcing and Offshore Services at research firm IDC, commented on the recommendations to help organizations achieve operations resilience including: develop Key Performance Indicates, a risk profile and a blueprint for operational resilience, perform gap analysis, implement strategic change initiatives, develop a holistic enterprise-wise governance and risk management system and Incorporate an optimal sourcing model for operational resilience.

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Bulldog Solutions announced SunGard Availability Services was awarded winner for "best theme" at this year's second annual "Killer Content Awards: Honoring the World's Best B2B Content Marketing Programs." SunGard Availability Services and Bulldog Solutions were recognized as winners for their "How to Survive a Zombie Attack" and "How to Move to the Cloud" campaign.

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The St. Louis Business Journal ranked the top largest data center operators in the St. Louis area, and included SunGard Availability Services as one of the fifteen companies listed, recognizing the amount of local data center facilities as well as total facilitates.

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Joe Pampel, director, enterprise architecture and cloud computing at SunGard Availability Services offers advice for logistics manufacturers considering the move to the cloud. Joe provides advantages for moving to the cloud including being able to try out new software applications using you data and potentially shrinking your IT budget.

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During the horrific events in Boston last week, five SunGard Availability Services customers located on Boylston Street declared disasters and implemented plans for offsite operations. A number of customers moved staff to SunGard Availability Services’ business continuity center in Marlborough, Mass. primarily due to access restrictions.

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The announcement surrounding SunGard Availability Services and its agreement with Amerinet could not have come at a better time. Health care facilities don’t just need their medical equipment up and running, but the supporting clinical and business systems must be kept going as well including the protection of Electronic Health Records (EHR).

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SunGard Availability Services announced a new agreement with Amerinet, Inc., a leading healthcare solutions organization, offering recovery and managed remote hosting services to their more than 60,000 members. Together the companies will protect Amerinet's members from the risks associated with clinical and business system outages, focusing on infrastructure management expertise.

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SunGard Availability Services’ agreement with Amerinet announcement comes at a crucial point in the healthcare industry. In addition to recovery services, security issues around protected health information in the cloud continues to be a top concern, as healthcare organizations are already moving to virtual environments, signaling that a move to the cloud for business, as well as clinical applications, is just around the corner.

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SunGard Availability Services announced its Managed Vaulting for NetApp service, which enables end-to-end protection of data for customers with NetApp storage in their primary data center environments. Alexandre Page-Relo, chief information officer, Remy Cointreau USA, Inc. commented on the new service which uses NetApp's SnapMirror or SnapVault technology to replicate data in real-time to NetApp infrastructure in SunGard AS' secure recovery environment.

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The legions of NetApp customers have a new way to gain end-to-end protection for their data. SunGard Availability Services this week unveiled the Managed Vaulting for NetApp service. The service has many benefits including that enterprises may save money by not incurring the capital expense of the on-premises backup hardware and software and the burden on IT to manage its backup infrastructure.

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Michael de la Torre, VP of product management for SunGard Availability Services, spoke with InformationWeek about big data management and knowing what data to analyze, what to back up and what to dump. Michael said big data for many companies is a business critical application, but not all data has equal value.

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SunGard Availability Services released Recover2Cloud for vCenter SRM, a service aimed to supply application protection and recovery into private, dedicated or shared cloud environments using VMware’s technology for automation and orchestration.

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SunGard Availability Services announced Recover2Cloud for vCenter SRM: a recovery solution which provides SLA-backed automated recovery of applications on VMware infrastructure at secure SunGard Availability Services cloud-based recovery sites. The service helps deliver fast, assured application protection and recovery, removing the recovery challenges from customers at the time of test or disaster while also reducing recovery times from days to hours.

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SRS2 Inc. announced a new strategic partnership with SunGard Availability Services that will extend the firm’s Dynamic Upgrade Lab capabilities to include full cloud deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite R12. Wade Alt, vice president of business operations and enterprise solutions at SunGard Availability Services, states that the partnership with SRS2 allows SunGard AS to provide key integration and migration services customers need in conjunction with SunGard Availability Services’ Hosted Private Cloud Services for Oracle EBS.

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Continuity Central shared ‘IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy’ white paper from SunGard Availability Services. The paper covers: the three recovery tiers and what's important for each, why change management is crucial and why your recovery might still fail even if you recently had a good test.

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Citrix announced the availability of CloudPortal(TM) Business Manager 2.0. Simon Withers, VP, Global Cloud Product at SunGard Availability Services provided a statement recognizing the importance of this partnership, noting that through utilizing Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager, SunGard Availability Services provides customers access to a public cloud customer portal.

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Cloud Connect, a premier technology event for cloud computing held on April 2-5 in Silicon Valley, announced exhibitor news leading up to the conference. The release included SunGard Availability Services’ Recover2Cloud for vCenter SRM announcement, which provides SLA-backed automated recovery of VMware applications at secure SunGard Availability Services cloud-based recovery sites.

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Network Computing featured the announcement of SunGard Assurance^cm in its weekly roundup, pulling information from the press release and linking to the full release. The review focuses on the impact SunGard Assurance^cm will have on a wide range of users and SunGard Availability Services’ attention to customer input in building the new solution.

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Editor Jason Verge spoke with Louis Grosskopf, general manager of Business Continuity Software at SunGard Availability Services, regarding SunGard Assurance^cm, focusing on how SunGard Availability Services utilized the opinions of more than 100 customers to make its new solution user-friendly.

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The announcement of SunGard Assurance^cm was featured in Jeff Schwartz’s blog “The Schwartz Cloud Report.” Derek Bluestone, senior director of product management at SunGard Availability Services spoke about the solution’s ability to expand the community of users involved in disaster planning.

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Continuity Central published an article surrounding the announcement of SunGard Assurance^cm, pulling key messaging and language from the SunGard Assurance^cm press release.

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Disaster Resource Guide announced SunGard Assurance^cm in its weekly newsletter, pulling key messages from the press release and directing readers to the new website landing page.

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Editor Erin Harrison spoke with Louis Grosskopf, general manager of Business Continuity Software at SunGard Availability Services, and customer Kathy Robbins of UNUM for her article on Assurance^cm, featuring the customer-centric approach SunGard Availability Services took when developing the solution.

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Matt Goche, Director, Information Security Consulting, discusses what SunGard Availability Services can offer CIOs and CISOs with respect to disaster recovery and cloud security. Mobile security and cloud security were two of the most talked about health IT security trends at HiMSS13 and Goche reinforces SunGard Availability Services’ expertise and leadership in the industry.

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SunGard Availability Services is a sponsor for Cloud Connect, the premier technology event on cloud computing, featuring the latest technologies, platforms, strategies and innovations. The event will take place April 2-5, 2013 in Santa Clara, California.

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High availability has become a necessity for companies and clients that are looking to get the most from their storage vendors. Janel Ryan, the Director of Product Marketing, Managed Services at SunGard Availability Services, describes several of the services available that assist with backup, recovery and storage optimization assessments.

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Chris Cooley, VP of Product Management for SunGard Availability Services, contributed a byline article to Manufacturing Business Technology on disaster recovery for logistics providers. Cooley provides readers with four tips manufacturers can do on the disaster preparedness front to keep downtime to a minimum, should the unexpected occur.

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Cara Camping, product manager of Managed Security Services SunGard Availability Services spoke with Alan Shimel from NetworkWorld at the RSA Conference while participating in Alert Logic’s customer pavilion. Camping spoke about the services SunGard Availability Services offers and the increased need for security.

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Channel Partners thanks their 2013 “Channel Partners Conference and Expo” sponsors including SunGard Availability Services for their participation, especially in hosting the awards ceremony and dinner. The event had a record year with approximately 3,700 participants.

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The demand for unfaltering, 24/7 information availability is predominantly being driven by today's young, technology-savvy and mobile-ready workforce according to a new report. Nelson Phillips, Professor of Strategy and Organisational Behaviour at Imperial College London, finds the biggest challenge for many businesses is the generational divide that exists between those demanding the technology and those who are paying for it. The report, 'Delivering the Available Enterprise,’ was coauthored by SunGard Availability Services and Phillips.

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SunGard Availability Services’ technology partner Alert Logic announced plans to showcase its growing portfolio of industry-leading cloud security solutions at RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco. Alert Logic's exhibit will feature the Alert Logic Secure Cloud Partner Pavilion, with demonstrations and presentations by five of the company's premier partners including SunGard Availability Services.

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CRN announced Carmen Sorice III, senior vice president of Channels at SunGard Availability Services, as one of its 2013 Channel Chiefs. This is a prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders recognized by the IT channel for their direct contribution in driving channel sales and growth within their organization and evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT Industry.

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