IPC Systems has signed a contract with SunGard Availability Services to help provide a suite of customisable disaster recovery and hosted dealing solutions to SunGard customers in the UK.

IPC has supplied SunGard with a suite of IQ/MAX turrets as part of a major overhaul of SunGard's Dealing Solutions, which is part of SunGard's Flexible Workplace Recovery offering.  This upgrade could allow SunGard to offer its customers greater flexibility, a higher level of resiliency and more choice when selecting their disaster recovery location. SunGard has also implemented IPC's MAXaccess 1000 soft turret and Enhanced Voice Service solutions, which help it to push data and telephony access to whichever SunGard or client facility required, in the event that an organisation is unable to operate as normal from its trading floor.

Consolidation of infrastructure into two of SunGard's fully resilient technology centres will be supported by IPC's thin-building design.  This approach concentrates back-office infrastructure, including the Alliance switch at a location remote from the recovery site, providing remote turret capabilities across all of SunGard's workplace recovery locations in the UK.