| SunGard constructs three new UK workplace recovery centres
The centres, located in Elland, West Yorkshire; Leatherhead, Surrey; and Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, take the total number of SunGard workplace recovery positions in the UK beyond 10,000. In common with SunGard’s wider portfolio of UK recovery locations, each of the new centres will boast several recovery suites, each offering between 10 and 100 workplace recovery positions. All SunGard workplace recovery centres offer standardised high specification telephony, PCs, printers, LAN switching and servers as well as fully cabled meeting rooms, conference facilities, kitchen and rest areas. SunGard believes that its uniform approach at each of its centres is a key ingredient for its customers’ ability to recover to an alternate site. Coupled with SunGard’s common management procedures, customers can have high confidence in their ability to recover. * The Elland Recovery Centre, which will officially open for business in April 2007, will provide workplace recovery and data centre space. It will offer over 360 workplace recovery positions, across six suites, and a conference room, four meeting rooms and two server rooms. The centre features energy-efficient plant that qualifies for the UK Government’s Enhanced Capital Allowances scheme, which supports business investment in low carbon technologies. * The Milton Keynes Recovery Centre will provide nearly 200 workplace recovery positions across two suites. This facility is also due to open in April 2007. * The Leatherhead Recovery Centre, which is due for completion in Q3 2007, will provide 1,100 workplace recovery positions and will feature ten suites, a computer equipment room, server rooms, showers, post, meeting and rest rooms. Linking the three new locations is the award winning Ethernet network – the SunGard National Network (SNN). The SNN interconnects SunGard’s regional recovery facilities, and links them to SunGard's flagship information availability data centre, the fully resilient London Technology Centre. From here, the network extends across ScaleNet, SunGard’s optical network, to SunGard’s London recovery locations, thereby creating a UK-wide virtual recovery campus, comprising of over 20 facilities. SunGard believes that its network infrastructure delivers a solution of unrivalled robustness and flexibility for its customers. In the event of widescale or multiple disaster declarations, when a customer’s first choice recovery location may be rendered unavailable, the SunGard network infrastructure, combined with SunGard’s standardised workplace recovery offering at each of its workplace recovery centres, can then allow SunGard the ability to offer customers the use of available, alternative SunGard UK workplace recovery sites – referred to as ‘rollback’.
•Date: 7th March 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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