Powell's Books Selects SunGard Availability Services to Host Its Mission-Critical Applications

WAYNE, Pa., Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Powell's Books, Portland, Oregon's legendary, independent bookstore, has chosen SunGard Availability Services to host mission-critical applications, including its e-commerce website, www.powells.com.

Powells.com processes thousands of book orders each day.  By utilizing SunGard's services, Powell's can help ensure the uptime and availability of the website, reducing the risk of a costly outage.  Powell's is also utilizing SunGard's data center migration services to plan, manage, and execute the migration to SunGard's data center.

"We were under pretty tight time constraints for the Powells.com migration, so we needed a vendor that could not only provide enterprise-grade hosting, but could also project manage the migration," said Brian Fitzgerald, general manager, Powells.com.  "The SunGard staff orchestrated a seamless move of Powells.com over a single weekend.  As a result, our staff was able to stay focused on business initiatives and our customers experienced no lapse in service."

Powell's will also benefit from SunGard's contractually backed service level agreements and adherence to PCI-DSS compliance standards.

"Powell's is uniquely positioned in the online market and they turned to us to help ensure a high availability of their mission-critical applications," said Gordon Chan, director of data center operations, SunGard Availability Services.  "As the business grows, our range of managed services and infrastructure services will help Powell's scale their operation through its partnership with SunGard."

SunGard's hosting services help organizations benefit from the expertise of SunGard personnel in secure, resilient facilities.  SunGard facilities can serve as a primary production location, or as secondary data center for backup and recovery.

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About Powell's Books and Powells.com

Powell's is an independent bookseller serving the Portland, Oregon, area since 1971, with four general bookstores and one specialty store.  Its flagship store takes up an entire city block, offering 68,000 square feet of used, new, rare, and out-of-print books.  Powells.com offers the combined inventory of its five retail locations and five warehouses - approximately four million books in all.  The site features exclusive author interviews and essays, as well as a stable of internationally respected book reviewers and content partners.

About SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to over 9,000 customers globally.  With approximately five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard Availability Services helps customers improve the resilience of their mission critical systems by designing, implementing and managing cost-effective solutions using people, process and technology to address enterprise IT availability needs.  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.sungardas.com or call 1-800-468-7483.  Connect with us on Twitter.com, LinkedIn and Facebook.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies.  SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. 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 of about $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company.  Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, please www.sungard.com.

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