SunGard Availability Services doubles capacity at Livingston business recovery facility

SunGard Availability Services has upgraded its Scottish disaster recovery centre based in Livingston, doubling available capacity for customers. The facility now provides workplace recovery positions for up to 900 people with capacity for a further 200. The centre is also linked to SunGard’s 25,000 miles of national and international networks, ensuring that data recovery could occur at any of SunGard’s 20 facilities in the UK as well as to 48 other points of presence worldwide.

The upgrade is part of a large investment, which started in the summer of 2003 with a refresh of all the PCs and an upgrade of the power to the facility. In addition, a mezzanine floor has been constructed to double the capacity of the building, bringing the total investment for this upgrade to over £2.2 million.

The facility now also offers two conference rooms, five meeting rooms and five breakout areas with kitchen facilities. The centre operates a range of IT platforms including Intel, UNIX and mid-range (such as IBM iSeries and pSeries) servers and offers a common desktop PC, telephony platform and ‘rollback’ capacity meaning that customers are protected in the event of a metropolitan-wide disaster.

This rollback capability was recently put to the test during the BT tunnel fire incident in Manchester and provides tangible evidence of the effectiveness of SunGard’s company-wide policy of ‘backup for backup’.

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•Date: 15th June 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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