SunGard Availability Services Positioned As Challenger in Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services

WAYNE, Pa., July 21 -- SunGard Availability Services has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a challenger in the Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services.

For Web hosting and cloud computing environments, SunGard helps customers lower data center costs while improving system and application uptime by leveraging SunGard's service delivery. SunGard provides IT infrastructure solutions and consulting services to help ensure business systems are always up and running, and enable customers to avoid capital and operating costs associated with building and operating their own data centers.

"We view our Magic Quadrant position validating SunGard as a key provider that continues to shape the Web hosting and cloud computing industry through our distinct advantage in IT operations management and information availability management which leverages managed services and disaster recovery services," said Patrick Doherty, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at SunGard Availability Services. "SunGard remains focused on enabling application mobility for organizations and their critical business processes. We do that by delivering an always-available infrastructure that provides just-right capabilities, delivered just-in-time for production, testing, development and recovery purposes."

SunGard managed services allow customers to focus on their business operations, processes and applications by utilizing SunGard's managed services and global facility footprint rather than build and support their own data centers and IT infrastructure. SunGard offerings include colocation, managed colocation and enterprise managed services that include database and system services, storage and data assurance and security services with service level agreement (SLA) and solution support. SunGard managed services are suited to organizations that require a secure, highly available and redundant IT environment and address the needs of small business to large enterprise customers.

SunGard cloud computing services focus on application mobility which helps companies utilize SunGard computing and network infrastructure to access capacity-on-demand for production computing needs, protection of computing assets and at time of disaster. SunGard also provides consulting services and planning software to help enable application availability, assess and implement virtualization technologies and develop and deploy strategies to move computing applications and data to cloud infrastructures.

Included among SunGard's cloud offerings is Virtual Server Replication Services, which provides companies an affordable way to implement a comprehensive second site recovery program for virtual and physical IT environments, with failover within six hours. Also, SunGard provides Secure2Disk, which delivers a disk-based, online backup and recovery solution for organizations looking to improve the reliability of operational backup and off-site recovery of IT systems.

SunGard is a charter member of the VMware vCloud partner ecosystem. SunGard leverages VMware's proven virtualization platform to create faster, centralized and automated information availability services to protect both virtual and traditional IT environments.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted July 2, 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business. To learn more, visit www.availability.sungard.com or call 1-800-468-7483.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world's 25 largest financial services companies.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented six times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.

*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com/

Note: Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On Demand)" by Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlin was published on July 2, 2009.

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