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Taming the Big Data Monster: An Interview with Jack Dziak

May 2013 by 0

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

May 2013 by 0

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

May 2013 by 0

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 [...]..

News & Events: Spring Conferences and Fresh News

May 2013 by 0

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 [...]..

Healthcare: 5 Challenges that Could Put Your IT Recovery in the ER

March 2013 by 0

Healthcare organizations are quickly incorporating new IT technologies as they face a data deluge from new imaging, diagnostic and electronic health record systems that require the storage, backup, and recovery of far greater volumes of data. These trends are creating new IT challenges that can strain IT resources and jeopardize recovery efforts. IT departments in [...]..

Gartner Summit: Leveraging a CIO Dashboard to Manage Costs

November 2012 Uncategorized by 0

In preparation for the Gartner Data Center Conference December 3 – 6 in Las Vegas, we spoke with Atif Malik, Consulting Director – Data Center & Infrastructure Optimization at SunGard Availability Services, about the importance of executive dashboards for CIOs as a way to achieve greater efficiencies in their data centers. Q1. CIOs are always [...]..

Radical Change Management for DR Planners

November 2012 Uncategorized by 0

One of the primary problems customers have with disaster recovery and production is change management. We spoke with Michael de la Torre, vice president of Recovery Services Product Management, about the latest SunGard service – the Customer Configuration Repository – designed to revolutionize change management. INSIDER:  What is the SunGard Change Management Tool? Michael de [...]..

News You May Have Missed

November 2012 Uncategorized by 0

In case you missed our last newsletter or forgot to check the SunGard social media sites, here are the latest updates: Gartner Summit: Don’t miss the next Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, where you’ll learn about such topics as what CIOs need to consider in their executive dashboards for DC optimization. Vote for SunGard! [...]..

Distributed Block Storage Presents New Challenges

October 2012 by 0

In the second part of our series on Cloud Computing, we tackle the challenge of Distributed Block Storage. With the advent of the Cloud, businesses of every size have benefited from unprecedented levels of data storage and security. Everything from email to basic data files can be stored in the cloud, usually at little cost. But with [...]..

Data Overload? Enter Managed Vaulting for NetApp

August 2012 by 0

Managed Vaulting for NetApp: Help Ensure End-to-End Data Protection As any business can attest, there’s more data to control than ever before and it keeps growing at exponential rates. Companies need to retain and manage their data efficiently, while protecting it with a viable recovery solution. Unfortunately, manual backups are error-prone, time consuming, and require [...]..

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