| New SunGard service helps US companies achieve fast recovery of virtual IT environments
This offering is part of the recently announced SunGard and VMware partnership, where the companies are working together to deliver a new breed of fully managed virtualization-based services giving companies more options to help meet today's aggressive availability goals. SunGard Virtual Server Replication Services leverages a shared virtual infrastructure fully managed at a SunGard data center. With the service, a customer replicates its existing virtual machine infrastructure and SunGard stores this virtual disk file, containing the guest virtual machine's server operating system, data and applications, in a dormant state. When a customer activates failover, SunGard moves the virtual disk file to production mode at one of its highly secure data centers - helping customers achieve a sub-six hour recovery time objective (RTO). All aspects of replication and failover are monitored and managed by SunGard, and the six-hour recovery window is part of SunGard's standard SLA for the service. The customer can then use its applications on a SunGard-provided virtualized IT infrastructure, which utilizes VMware virtualization, to run its production system. SunGard also manages replication back to the original source, once a customer's IT environment is ready to resume operations. "The Achilles heel of most virtualized IT environments is that they rely on a single data center to facilitate system failover should an event occur," said Bob Parker, director of AdvancedRecovery product management at SunGard Availability Services. "A recovery strategy with no off-site data may mean, quite possibly, no recovery. Virtual Server Replication Services provides organizations an affordable way to have access to a secondary data center for protection of physical and virtual IT environments." For more information visit www.availability.sungard.com or call 1-800-523- 4970.
•Date: 5th August 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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