Smart Data Centers Feature Editorial

SunGard Availability Services announced that it will address the challenges pertaining to customer satisfaction, business data protection and regulatory compliance and give solutions at the Gartner (News - Alert) Data Center Conference.

The suitable solutions are expected to enhance the availability and uptime necessary to maintain business operations, applications and compliance processes.

According to SunGard sources the conference will feature a presentation by Dominick Paul, vice president of Recovery Services Solution Design at SunGard Availability Services, on “Application Availability for Heterogeneous Environments.” Paul will outline effective approaches to the IT challenge of maintaining application availability in multi-platform environments at the session. The session is scheduled to take place on Dec. 7.

Paul said in a press release, “Heterogeneous IT environments are the norm for organizations today as they are designed to address varying needs, budgets and priorities within an organization.”

“Security and regulatory concerns may drive the need to maintain historical environments, while other business requirements leverage new technologies. These environments present special challenges in that they require different availability solutions. At the Gartner Data Center Conference, we’ll show organizations how they can help ensure the availability of disparate business applications,” he added.

Mickey Zandi, managing principal at SunGard Availability Services, will participate on a Cisco (News - Alert) panel discussion titled, “Lower Data Center Costs Today, Transform it Tomorrow.” Zandi will discuss the essential elements for transforming datacenters to drive quantifiable business value. This session is scheduled for the Dec. 6.

SunGard is expected to showcase information availability solutions and software tools at the Gartner event. The company proposes to highlight its Secure2Disk which is SunGard’s solution to promote a more efficient, tiered recovery strategy. This online disk-based service is designed for operational recovery and for shifting tape media to long-term archive retention, said company sources.

SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to customers in North America and Europe. It assists IT organizations to prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime.