Sungard AS announces £4m investment

Sungard Availability Services has announced its latest £4million investment across the organisation’s Workplace Recovery service locations, aimed at updating hardware.

The upcoming refresh is Sungard AS’ most advanced so far, with each machine featuring Intel’s Quad core Itanium i7-6700 processor and the Q170 Skylake chipset.

With phased roll-out beginning in Q2 2016, the project is scheduled to complete in the summer. Crucially, the investment will see a PC on every workplace position in all recovery centres, helping to reduce customer access time to three hours or less for any workplace requirement.

“From floods to pavement fires; snow to transport strikes; power to communications outages: recent events have shown us that nowhere in the UK is immune to business disruption. Organisations from all corners of the country are still united in a common need for scalable people recovery, ensuring that they are ready and available to answer customer requests no matter what,” said Keith Tilley, executive vice-president, ​global sales and customer services management, Sungard AS.

“Since the inception of Workplace Recovery two decades ago, technology and working practices have been both dynamic and in a state of constant evolution. Our continued investment in this vital service reflects these digital and societal changes and demonstrates our commitment to helping our customers maintain their market presence and are ability to remain competitive...”

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