SunGard launches new Electronic Vaulting service

SunGard Availability Services, has unveiled ‘Electronic Vaulting’, a service offering to help organisations to securely and accurately back up their data, whilst also offering the potential to help them improve their Recovery Time Objectives (an organisation’s target time for resumption of operations following a system outage).

In the event of a disaster, customer data stored via Electronic Vaulting can be rapidly recovered at a SunGard recovery site, helping save valuable time in getting an organisation’s systems up and running again. SunGard believes that the recovery time savings that may be achieved with the use of Electronic Vaulting can be up to and in some instances beyond eight hours.

Electronic Vaulting works by sending daily data backups across SunGard’s National Network to be stored at two separate data centre locations. At one of the data centres, the data is held on disk whilst at the other data centre, the data is held on tape. Storing the data at two separate locations helps to protect against the risk of loss of the data at any one site. This approach also automates the laborious manual process associated with physically transporting backup tapes to storage centres, and helps organisations to initiate recovery of the data from disk without having to wait for the tapes to be returned to their premises.

The new Electronic Vaulting service integrates with SunGard’s existing portfolio of recovery services, built up over three decades in the industry.

Commenting on the launch, Dave Gilpin, product and solutions director at SunGard Availability Services (UK) Limited, said: “As tapes have to be physically taken off the premises at back up, it follows that recovery cannot happen until the tapes are brought back again: this is where the risks lie. If disaster strikes or your offices are for some reason inaccessible, you may be helpless. Electronic Vaulting helps reduce the time and risk involved in backing up and restoring critical data. For an organisation to implement a similar solution itself would require an investment of several millions of pounds.”

“We believe the SunGard approach is quicker and more reliable than a traditional tape-based backup solution and could also help customers save money, as it helps ensure the business recovers the data, and is up and running again, far more quickly. We currently back up approximately 3,000 systems every single day, so we understand the process of backup and restore inside out.”

www.sungard.co.uk

•Date: 17th January 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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