SunGard Expands Cloud Services

SunGard
Availability Services has expanded its Cloud Services to Canada with the
launch of its first Canadian-based cloud computing delivery centre.

The cloud centre will offer SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services,
an enterprise cloud built for production environments,
and Recover2CloudSM for Vaulting, a managed Recovery-as-a-Service
offering for applications running on physical or virtual platforms.

SunGard first launched its Enterprise Cloud Services and
Recover2Cloud service in North America in 2011, but this opening marks the
first instance of the SunGard Cloud on Canadian soil.

The Enterprise Cloud Services in Canada are delivered by SunGard
from its Mississauga, Ontario data centre with the resilient, enterprise
Vblock cloud technology from EMC, VMware and Cisco.

Frontline Focus International, Inc., a shopping service provider,
recently implemented SunGard Enterprise Cloud Services in the Canadian Centre.

"When it was time to
refresh our production environment, we decided we needed an enterprise cloud
solution that would support emerging technologies and provide the scalability
to meet our company’s growth projections," said
Adam Fariello, Executive Director, Information Technology at Frontline Focus
International. "We chose SunGard as our
provider as they understood and were able to meet our specific requirements and
challenges. During the migration, SunGard acted as an extension of our IT
department; the staff’s depth of resources, technical skills and excellent
support has made our move to the cloud successful. Additionally, working with
SunGard provided the added value of helping us uncover and mitigate potential
risks to our organization."

SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services is an IaaS
solution that delivers security, compute, storage, and networking in one managed platform. This approach delivers
efficiency and availability for customer production applications. SunGard
provides customers a contractually committed 99.95 percent infrastructure
uptime Service Level Agreement.

With SunGard’s Recover2Cloud Vaulting services, SunGard provides
online backup and recovery of physical and virtual environments and assumes
recovery responsibility on behalf of an organization, with operations staff
driving solution deployment and performing 24/7 monitoring, troubleshooting and
testing. The recovery service is performed at time of test as well as at
disaster outage, and is backed by a contractually committed SLA.

"We’ve been seeing a marked increase in
demand for services from our Canadian customers," said Rob Walters, vice
president, product management, SunGard Availability Services. "By adding cloud to our existing colocation,
managed hosting and DR services available in our Canadian data centres,
organizations can take a hybrid approach to their cloud deployments. They can
now blend physical, virtual and cloud models in their overall production and
recovery environments."

The SunGard Mississauga facility isa data centre which is backed
by ITILv3 framework, included in SunGard’s annual SSAE 16 Type II audit report
and certified to the ISO 20000-1 standard. SunGard’s cloud computing platform
is housed within its premier data centres, and as such is adherent to SunGard’s
policies regarding governance, risk and compliance