SunGard Availability Services Expands Suite E-Mail Services That Help Ensure Dependable Access to Important Business and Communications Tools Used Every Day.

WAYNE, Pa. -- SunGard Availability Services today announced an expanded, comprehensive suite of Messaging and Collaboration Services that helps deliver the secure data, systems, networks and support organizations need to keep their businesses in business. The services help customers to maintain communications and connectivity across the enterprise so they can achieve higher availability, lower total cost of ownership and improve messaging security.

With industry research showing about 90 percent of corporate communications is driven by e-mail, SunGard Messaging and Collaboration Services help organizations maintain, upgrade, use and protect e-mail systems that keep people and information connected. They leverage the enterprise-class IT infrastructure of SunGard to help provide outsourced services so systems and networks are always on and e-mail applications and data are always available.

According to a 2005 study by IT analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group, "the need to retain e-mail is now the primary driver of electronic records management initiatives. For many organizations, an e-mail disruption or outage can have a devastating business impact, cutting companies away from customers and partners that drive revenue and slowing down internal communications processes," stated Brian Babineau, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. "The business value of the SunGard Messaging and Collaboration Services suite centers on its information availability strategy. The solutions address the fragility and complexity of e-mail to improve messaging system uptime and reduce security vulnerabilities to maintain the flow of business-critical communications."

The SunGard Messaging and Collaboration Services suite has five components -- each offered as standalone as well as integrated in combinations that help deliver great synergies. The components are:

E-Mail Availability Service, which delivers a standby e-mail system, built on secure, open-source technology and standard Web components. This service provides transparent failover, in as little as 60 seconds, should any type of event - planned or otherwise - disrupt an e-mail system or IT infrastructure, including problems with physical facilities, servers, network connections and even staff.

E-Mail Protection Service, which offers continuous protection against intrusions and annoyances from hackers, spammers, phishers and others attempting to invade an e-mail system. This service provides customers the ability to redirect mail exchange records to SunGard, where every message is inspected using industry-leading security and safety features. All protection tasks are handled at the perimeter level, meaning they are addressed before e-mail enters a customer's systems and mailboxes.

Hosted Exchange Service, which provides an organization with fully managed, secure mailboxes hosted at SunGard facilities as well as easy, Microsoft-supported migration paths to stay current with the latest versions of Microsoft Exchange. Mailboxes are configurable on demand, protected by anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering features, and available at an affordable price-per-mailbox per month.

Notification Service, a Web-based tool which provides direct, real-time, two-way communications between organizations and large numbers of employees, customers and other key audiences. It leverages multiple methods - e-mail, voice, text messaging, pagers, Blackberry devices and other modes - to make sure messages are received. The service can be used for standard communications - including company-wide announcements and overtime calling lists - as well as during a crisis such as an IT outage or physical disaster.

Archiving Service for Messaging, which is designed to manage the lifecycle of e-mails and attachments from creation through storage and retrieval to disposition - addressing compliance and E-Discovery requirements. The service leverages SunGard's 24/7 monitoring, management and maintenance support to free up customer IT personnel time and storage resources for other pressing projects.

"For every organization, e-mail is fragile, complex and has hidden costs of business downtime that go beyond basic IT investments," said Don Norbeck, product manager for managed IT services at SunGard Availability Services. "SunGard's Messaging and Collaboration Services help provide organizations with access to a secure, reliable and redundant messaging infrastructure at a fraction of the cost that would be needed for companies to deploy on their own. It also helps free up IT resources to manage core business competencies."

About SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services is the pioneer and leading provider of information availability services, helping to ensure that more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe have access to their business-critical information systems. With over 3 million square feet of hardened facilities, SunGard offers a complete range of information availability services for more than 30 technology platforms, from 48-hour disaster recovery hot sites to always-on, high-availability infrastructure, co-location and electronic vaulting services. SunGard also provides technology and systems management services for application and data center outsourcing, as well as business continuity consulting services and planning software. For more information about SunGard Availability Services, visit www.availability.sungard.com or call 1-800-523-4970.

About SunGard

With annual revenue of $4 billion, SunGard is a global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also helps information-dependent enterprises of all types to ensure the continuity of their business. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 50 countries, including the world's 50 largest financial services companies. Visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.

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