SunGard Availability Services Earns 2011 Excellence in Cloud Computing Award from TMC

WAYNE, Pa., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SunGard Availability Services today announced the company has been honored with a 2011 Excellence in Cloud Computing Award from TMC's Cloud Computing magazine for its Enterprise Cloud Services. SunGard has distinguished itself in the market by delivering a fully managed cloud environment with enterprise-grade application availability and security.

The Excellence in Cloud Computing awards were created to recognize companies that demonstrate innovation and strive for enhancement in cloud computing solutions.

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SunGard's Enterprise Cloud Services are a fully managed Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering where SunGard manages availability and security of compute, network and storage resources.  This approach delivers higher efficiency, reliability and availability for production applications. SunGard provides customers a 99.95 percent infrastructure uptime Service Level Agreement.

"This award provides strong validation for how SunGard's Enterprise Cloud Solutions meet the enterprise's need for security, reliability, compliance, service levels and high availability in their cloud solutions," said Rob Walters vice president, managed services, SunGard Availability Services.  "Our fully managed Enterprise Cloud Services were built to support our customers' most critical production applications and we are pleased to be recognized by TMC for bringing this kind of cloud to the market."

"SunGard Availability Services has been recognized for its achievement in bringing innovation and excellence in the market while leveraging the latest technology trends to create an enriched user experience," said Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director, TMC.

Winners of the Cloud Computing Excellence Award are published in the January 2012 issue of Cloud Computing Magazine.

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, 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 over 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, 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, visit www.sungard.com.

About TMC
TMC, celebrating their 40th Anniversary in 2012, is a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online.  TMC publishes the Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility and Cloud Computing (formerly InfoTECH Spotlight) magazines.  TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world's leading B2B communications event.  In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4G Wireless Evolution; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Expo; SIP Tutorial 2.0:Bringing SIP to the Web; Business Video Expo; Regulatory 2.0 Workshop; DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; CVx; AstriCon; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more. Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information.

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