May 2013 Newsletter

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Taming the Big Data Monster: An Interview with Jack Dziak

While some IT managers welcome the challenge of rising data volumes, most companies have decided they can’t keep throwing servers at their exponentially expanding data assets. Not all data is born equal, and the importance of different types of data is far from constant. INSIDER spoke with Jack Dziak, SunGard’s Executive Vice President & General [...]

Always On, Always Connected in a Highly Virtualized World

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Meeting the availability needs of “always on, always connected” (AOAC) employees and customers is tough enough, but the highly interdependent nature of today’s virtual applications creates new problems that must be addressed. In particular, it is no longer enough to guarantee rapid restoration of a server, a single application, or a set of data. Today, you [...]..

ISO 20000: SunGard Renews Certification with Flying Colors

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SunGard Availability Services recently passed its second surveillance audit for ISO 20000-1:2005 certification from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO certification provides assurance that service requirements will be fulfilled consistently and effectively, and demonstrating SunGard’s capability for the design, delivery, support, and improvement of services. This coveted third-party industry certification involved a comprehensive evaluation [...]..

SunGardian Profile: Bob DiLossi

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For more than 30 years, the people of SunGard Availability Services have stood side by side with our customers, keeping mission critical information and applications up and running. Now, we take a look at the “SunGardians” who make it possible. In our first interview for the SunGardian Profiles, we spoke with Bob DiLossi, Director of [...]..

News & Events: Spring Conferences and Fresh News

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UPCOMING EVENTS: Join us for our upcoming SunGard Webinar: You CAN Have it All!  How to Leverage a Hybrid IT Strategy. While some companies are debating between public and private cloud, most companies are trying to manage a mixed environment. IDC expects that for the next several years, most mission critical enterprise IT priorities will rely [...]..

Take our Cloud Survey

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Our May reader’s survey explores the Cloud:  Are you using cloud services in your company?  If so, what types of Cloud services are you using?  What percentage of your environment is currently virtualized?  How has the Cloud changed your business? Take the full survey and tell us where you stand in your Cloud adoption.  Next month, we’ll [...]..

March Poll Results

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How prepared is your company for a major disaster or disruption? Over the last two years, we have seen the impact that major storms such as Hurricanes Irene and Sandy have had on businesses in the impacted regions. In response, we used our poll in last month’s INSIDER newsletter to see how prepared companies are [...]..