SunGard Availability Services provides IT Operations support to IT departments that need to ensure business viability by keeping mission critical information and applications up and running. Unlike other companies that offer individual technology services, SunGard is focused on providing responsive and integrated disaster recovery, managed services, IT consulting and business continuity management software solutions, to help organizations keep people and information connected. 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.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses.
SunGard was formed in 1982 as a spin-off of a division of Sun Oil Company. Back in the 1970s, during a period of very low oil prices, many oil companies were diversifying their operations. Sun Oil started several businesses, including a computer services division that eventually became SunGard.
In 1986, SunGard went public and remained a public company until August of 2005 when it changed back to a private company as a result of an LBO valued at $11.4 billion. Organized by Silver Lake, the investors in the LBO included Bain Capital Partners, The Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs & Co., Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Providence Equity Partners and Texas Pacific Group.
Since its inception, SunGard’s strategy has been to acquire companies with products that can be leveraged across the enterprise. SunGard has completed more than 160 acquisitions since 1986, which allows it to offer a broad portfolio of best-of-breed technology solutions to the organizations it serves.
SunGard is comprised of four businesses - Availability Services, Financial Systems, Higher Education and Public Sector - that provide technology and infrastructure services, and software and processing solutions.
SunGard Availability Services has been a pioneer and leading provider of information availability solutions for over 25 years. With acquisitions such as Comdisco (2001), InFlow (2005) and most recently VeriCenter (2007), SunGard Availability Services continues to enhance its product/service offerings combining dedicated and shared resources tailored to specific customer information availability needs.
SunGard Availability Services Ireland are Ireland’s leading and largest managed hosting and IT solutions provider delivering best in class enterprise services. Our team of highly skilled engineers support and partner our customers critical environments allowing them to concentrate on their core business.
We specialise in Enterprise Cloud solutions, managed hosting services, dedicated hosting, and managed co-location, to the Irish and International marketplace. Services are delivered from two dedicated Dublin facilities, in Park West, Dublin 12 and Clonshaugh, Dublin 17.