| Sungard Availability Services launches ‘fastest mobile recovery service’
QuickShip is a technology resource which UK customers can call on to replace their own systems during an invocation or to use for testing. Based in the East Midlands, the latest technologies can be quickly shipped to customer sites to significantly reduce any business disruption. The QuickShip service will also give customers a purchase option at invocation so that if a company’s own technology is destroyed it can retain the QuickShip equipment. The new service will also significantly reduce the time and money customers currently spend on testing business continuity plans as they can now do this in their own environment - without the need to visit a SunGard facility. Additionally, the QuickShip PCs are identical to the high-specification technology already deployed at SunGard's Workplace Recovery locations. This standardisation means that customers who have previously tested their business continuity solution at a SunGard site can contract for QuickShip secure in the knowledge that any equipment delivered at time of disaster will already be totally familiar to them. QuickShip consists of 80 of the latest dual and quad processor Intel servers, 500 PCs with 15, 18 and 20-inch TFT monitors, over 30 printers and more than 17TB of storage including fibre-attached disk. This is in addition to SunGard's considerable existing installed base of other shippable equipment. The technology is also on a regular refresh cycle, in keeping with SunGard's commitment to service excellence via investment. http://www.availability.sungard.com
•Date:
8th October 2004 • Region: UK •Type:
Article •Topic: IT
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