Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced a new suite of Business Continuity Services with AT&T, Nortel Networks and SunGard Availability Services to address one of today's most critical business requirements. These four global leaders in network computing and disaster recovery will confront threats against IT organizations with a comprehensive suite of offerings aimed at minimizing operational downtime and averting revenue loss.
"When it comes to business continuity the stakes are high," said Terry Erdle, vice president, Worldwide Marketing, Services and Solutions at Sun Microsystems. "By turning to Sun, customers can leverage the expertise of four world class global organizations to deliver superior business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. Our solutions with AT&T, Nortel Networks and SunGard Availability Services give leading financial services customers and other companies with mission-critical datacenters the peace of mind associated with knowing that their business-critical data is safe and available 24x7."
According to John Gantz, chief research officer at IDC, "Worldwide spending on business continuity and IT security solutions surpassed $70 billion in 2003 and will reach $118 billion by 2007. This continuing focus on security bodes well for opportunities within the security/business continuity market."
Sun Microsystems and SunGard Availability Services are expanding their alliance to include new offerings for entry-level servers based on the AMD Opteron processor. The Managed Disaster Recovery Services provide an affordable solution for customers who do not want to invest in a second datacenter. Key elements of the disaster recovery services include faster, reliable, and cost-effective protection for Sun servers and storage that help employees resume the same level of productivity following a disaster. Through disaster recovery planning and mobile recovery options, companies can receive assistance with implementation and testing of their business continuity and recovery strategy.
Maximizing Alliance Strengths For Data Continuity
With the Data Continuity Infrastructure Solution from Sun Microsystems and Nortel Networks, based on AT&T Ultravailable® Computing, multiple datacenters act as one unified productive datacenter. In other words, if one site goes down, transactions are quickly and automatically routed to the alternate site helping to eliminate expensive system down time. The centers are linked through the fully managed AT&T Ultravailable Computing service that integrates a private, high-speed, highly reliable metropolitan area network using Nortel Networks Optical Metro 5200 certified with Sun's Solaris Operating System and Sun Cluster software.