WAYNE, Pa.: SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, has today announced its expansion into India with two new dedicated Workplace Recovery facilities. The opening of the new centers follows the signing of a dedicated workplace recovery contract with a major international bank, and aims to meet the demand from international businesses for high levels of resilience for their key operations, whereby mission-critical, off-shore or outsourced business processes are protected according to business value, not just location.
The Workplace Recovery centers are located in Thane, near Mumbai, and Noida, near New Delhi. Built to the latest design standards, the facility at Noida will offer over 400 workplace recovery positions and is ideally placed to serve businesses in Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon. The Thane operation provides 243 seats and is well positioned to provide recovery capabilities to companies west of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, as well as those in Navi Mumbai and the new business districts developing near the airport at Santacruz and Bandra Kurla. Both facilities provide the option for future phases of development in line with industry requirements.
"This expansion is as a result of direct demand from global businesses â particularly in the financial sector â for the same levels of security and resilience that they enjoy in their other territories," says Keith Tilley, managing director UK and executive vice-president Europe for SunGard Availability Services. "Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the effect that major disruptions can have on their business wherever it's located. In the current economic environment, it's unthinkable to have large swathes of your workforce out of action as a result of a business disruption."
SunGard Availability Services has a significant presence within India through a 250-strong team of dedicated professionals, including software development support for SunGard's business continuity management software.
"SunGard's unrivalled heritage for robustness and scalability, combined with our existing knowledge of the Indian business landscape â including the challenges peculiar to the competitive Business Process Outsourcing sector â means we are well placed to deliver cost-effective availability solutions of high global standards for businesses located in India. We see this as just the initial phase of our expansion in India and are currently reviewing options for additional services as well as locations," Tilley added.
To head up Indian operations, SunGard has appointed Balachander Vasireddi as general manager for India. Vasireddi brings over 25 years' experience to SunGard, working in various customer-facing leadership roles within the IT industry, both in India and the US, including responsibility for managing hundreds of staff across globally dispersed service delivery teams. Vasireddi's career also includes successful periods with businesses including Sun Microsystems and Marimba (now part of BMC), along with USi, where he started and grew its India Operations Center to a 600+ member team over five years.
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 data center 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 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, visit http://www.sungard.com.
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