SunGard Availability Services Introduces Virtual Server Replication Services By VSM News Staff published: Monday, August 04 2008
Solution to Help Companies
Achieve Fast Disaster Recovery of Virtual IT Environments.
Wayne, Pa., August 4, 2008 - SunGard Availability Services, the
pioneer and leading provider of enterprise-wide information availability, today
announced Virtual Server Replication Services, an AdvancedRecovery solution for
organizations using virtualization technology to run their business
applications. The offering provides companies an affordable way to implement a
comprehensive second site recovery program for virtual and physical IT
environments, with failover within six hours.
This offering is part of the recently announced SunGard and VMware
partnership, where the companies are working together to deliver a new breed of
fully managed virtualization-based services giving companies more
AdvancedRecovery options to help meet today's aggressive availability
goals.
"We turned to virtualization because our
data center faces a constant need to add more servers while also being limited
by the physical space available without expensive expansion," said Mark
Zwartz, manager of information technologies at JMB Companies. "While it
took us one year to get our high availability site up and running, SunGard came
in and had our virtual recovery site ready to go in three weeks for our
mission-critical applications. This experience demonstrates the value companies
looking at virtualized recovery solutions can gain by tapping SunGard's
expertise rather than handling internally."
SunGard Virtual Server Replication Services leverages a shared
virtual infrastructure fully managed at a SunGard data center. With the
service, a customer replicates its existing virtual machine infrastructure and
SunGard stores this virtual disk file, containing the guest virtual
machine's server operating system, data and applications, in a dormant
state.
"Server
virtualization will dramatically change [the IT Recovery Services] model for
both the services provider and the customer. With replication to a shared
storage infrastructure and a virtualized server infrastructure, customers can
enjoy improved recovery-time and recovery-point objectives without the cost of
dedicated and custom recovery solutions from the DR service provider,"
said Stephanie Balaouras of Forrester Research, (The Forrester WaveTM:
Disaster Recovery Services Providers, Q2 2008, Forrester Research, Inc., June
5, 2008).
When a customer activates failover, SunGard moves the virtual disk
file to production mode at one of its highly secure data centers -
helping customers achieve a sub-six hour recovery time objective (RTO) which
many businesses require to continue operations without significant impact to
customers and employees. All aspects of replication and failover are monitored
and managed by SunGard, and the six-hour recovery window is part of
SunGard's standard service level agreement (SLA)
for the service. The customer can then use its applications on a
SunGard-provided virtualized IT infrastructure, which utilizes VMware
virtualization, to run its production system. SunGard also manages replication
back to the original source, once a customer's IT environment is ready to
resume operations.
"The Achilles heel of most virtualized IT environments is
that they rely on a single data center to facilitate system failover should an
event occur," said Bob Parker, director of AdvancedRecovery product
management at SunGard Availability Services. "A recovery strategy with no
off-site data may mean, quite possibly, no recovery. Virtual Server Replication
Services provides organizations an affordable way to have access to a secondary
data center for protection of physical and virtual IT environments."
SunGard has a one hundred percent (100%) recovery success rate
managing 2,100 disaster declarations in its 30 year history. SunGard provides
disaster recovery process expertise and automation, and an enterprise-class IT
infrastructure - a protocol-independent network, hardened facilities and
redundant power systems - to help maximize information availability.
SunGard
Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services is the
pioneer and leading provider of information availability solutions, helping to
ensure that 10,000 customers in North America and Europe
have access to their business-critical information systems. With four million
square feet of secure facilities, SunGard offers a complete range of
information availability solutions that include managed IT, professional and
business continuity services. SunGard provides services to support an always-on
production environment, as well as over 30 technology platforms to support
customers who require a traditional 24-48 hour recovery time frame. SunGard
also has technology and systems management services for application and data
center outsourcing, as well as business continuity consulting services and
planning software. For more information about SunGard Availability Services,
visit www.availability.sungard.com
or call 1-800-523-4970.
About SunGard
With annual
revenue of $5 billion, SunGard is a global leader in software and processing
solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector.
SunGard also helps information-dependent enterprises of all types to ensure the
continuity of their business. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more
than 50 countries, including the world's 50 largest financial services
companies. Visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.
Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and
AdvancedRecovery are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data
Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other
trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
holders.
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