SunGard Availability Services, a provider of Information Availability services, has signed a five year contract with Serco Group, a British government services company. This new arrangement will see SunGard take responsibility, on behalf ...
Tags: Serco, IT Infrastructure Transformation, Sungard Availability Services
Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is ...
Tags: Sungard, Cloud Service, Disaster Recovery
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has approved CloudStack as a top-level project (TLP), helping the open-source cloud software effort further establish its independence from Citrix, which acquired the program's codebase in its 2011 ...
Tags: Apache, Free Cloudstack, Citrix Fetters
Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own after it was sold in 2010. In December 2010, Advent International and Bain Capital acquired WorldPay for over ...
Tags: WorldPay, IT, Computer Products, RBS split
Businesses must make availability of IT services a boardroom issue because there is growing evidence of employee frustration and resentment when systems are unavailable, according to research from Imperial College. Many staff now expect ...
Tags: IT services, Imperial College, IT industry, IT infrastructur
As it stood late this afternoon, Hosting.com's data center in Newark, Del., was within walking distance of the projected path Hurricane Sandy's center once it makes landfall. This storm has put the staff at Hosting.com on alert. They went ...
Tags: Data Centers, Sandy, Cots, Fuel, Comfort Food
Financial services regulation is an industry in itself with 140,000 pages of regulations published over the last two years, but organisations could streamline the process of meeting regulations by getting IT involved in the process earlier. ...
Tags: Bank IT, Compliance Role, Think Tank, banks
Germany-based insurance and financial services provider, Generali Deutschland has deployed SunGard's iWorks ERM Platform, to enhance the efficiency, accuracy and auditability of its actuarial calculations and risk review process. The ...
Tags: ERM Platform, Generali Deutschland, SunGard, risk review process
CardioComm Solutions has signed a three year enterprise cloud services (ECS) agreement with SunGard Availability Services, a subsidiary of SunGard Data Systems. The ECS agreement will provide CardioComm with the systems infrastructure to ...
US-based Spartech, a producer of plastic sheet, compounds and packaging solutions, has launched Visual Plastics, its portfolio of products serving the sign, display, graphic arts and architectural design market at the 2012 IAPD Convention & ...
Computerworld-The financial services sector in New York City and New Jersey are dusting off disaster recovery plans and bracing for a storm that could bring 80 m.p.h.-plus winds and major flooding. Hurricane Sandy could not have been ...
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Managing the availability of businesses'customer-facing online presence is moving away from IT departments and towards marketing.That is according to a newly released report commissioned by SunGard availability services. Delivering ...
Tags: IT, SunGard, Professor Nelson Phillips
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) has called for the adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework across the banking and industry and its software and services suppliers to support the move to off-the-shelf ...
Tags: Bian, Commercial Software, software, services, off-the-shelf software