SunGard Availability Services has added another highly resilient data centre to its UK portfolio. Technology Centre 3 (TC3), in Surrey, is a purpose built data centre which is dedicated to delivering managed IT hosting including high availability solutions and cloud computing services.

This new facility continues SunGard’s ongoing programme of enhancements to its managed IT services capabilities in the UK, which have doubled in the past 18 months. Over 600 businesses trust SunGard to manage their production equipment across its four fully resilient UK data centres.

SunGard’s shared services model makes data centre space available at a fraction of the cost of any one company trying to buy, resource and power its own dedicated facility.

SunGard’s model supports the growing number of businesses turning to cloud computing, offering them the opportunity to create an enterprise class ‘private cloud’ which combines the flexibility of virtualization with dual-site or triple-site data centre resilience. Redundant systems are in place to help ensure maximum availability of the data centre at all times and all centres have carrier class connectivity to each other meaning customers can spread their ‘private cloud’ across multiple UK data centres reducing the risk of having all their environment in one data centre. Such tri-angulated connectivity to multiple SunGard Technology Centres means greater diversity, resilience and robustness for businesses.

In common with all SunGard Technology Centres, TC3 has been designed and built to provide maximum building integrity, physical security and resilience in network and power provision.

SunGard now offers four highly resilient Technology Centres across the UK: the London Technology Centre (LTC) and TC2 – respectively sited West and East of London; TC4 in Elland, West Yorkshire; and TC3 in Woking, Surrey.

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•Date: 18th June 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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