SunGard Availability Services Conference Provides Best Practices Insights And Tutorials To Software Customers
In a continuing effort to provide educational opportunities to business continuity professionals, the 2009 SunGard Availability Services Software International User Group Conference features sessions on building plans, incident management and cyber security. The conference, organized by SunGard Availability Services, will be held in San Diego, Calif. on April 5 – 8, 2009 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego.
The conference, themed "The Future is Now," will focus on forward-looking industry trends and best practice techniques, along with SunGard's solutions and software tools for business continuity management. The sessions will help planners gain insights into understanding current and future threats to business continuity and how to take steps to better prepare their organizations.
The four-day event will kick off with a keynote address -- Crisis is Opportunity: How to Change from Within -- by Frances Townsend, former Homeland Security and counterterrorism advisor to President George W. Bush.
"There is a saying that no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. This is particularly true if organizations have not road tested a business continuity plan," said Ms. Townsend. "By partnering with SunGard, organizations are better equipped to see over the horizon to identify and mitigate the potential issues and consequences they may face at the time of a disaster."
"Ms. Townsend's unique insights on contingency planning will prove to be invaluable to our users," said Brian Turley, senior vice president and general manager of SunGard Availability Services Software. "Her presentation will have a unique focus on lessons learned on the job, and if there's any industry that benefits from hindsight, it's business continuity planning."
Presented by representatives from a diverse group of organizations, the conference will also offer industry and software-specific breakout sessions, in addition to workshops covering a variety of business continuity planning topics designed to educate, intrigue and motivate attendees.
For more information about the SunGard Availability Services Software International User Group Conference, or to register, please visit http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=c560fb96-3225-446a-9f5b-9e68f7a713e7 or contact Kathleen Aris at kathleen.aris@sungard.com. Follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SUGC.
About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With four million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. 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. For more information, visit www.availability.sungard.com or call 1-800-468-7483.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world's 25 largest financial services companies.
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 exceeding $5B, SunGard is ranked 472 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.
SOURCE: SunGard Availability Services