Recover more people, faster and for less with Recover Anywhere™.
When staff are denied access to their office, a business rightly looks to recover 30-40% of its critical staff first. This hub of key staff can then focus on getting the business back on track as quickly as possible.
However, this needn't mean everyone else has to wait to get back to work. With SunGard Availability Services' Recovery Anywhere™ solution you can recover more people and more departments; faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.
Benefits at a Glance
•Everyone can quickly recover desktops and full telephony capability
•All staff have fully online, secure browser access
•In-bound calls can be redirected to mobiles or home phones so customer service can function as normal and both incoming and outgoing calls are charged to the organisation, as opposed to the employee
•With no need to process personal phone bill expenses post event it's less hassle all round
•No USB dongles or other such physical devices means there's no need to administer, maintain, distribute or collect them.
With Recover Anywhere™ everone has full secure browser access and virtualised desktop and telephony capability, which means less impact on your business - and your customers. For example, ensuring your customer service agents are able to access information and their telephone systems as normal means your customers won't even know there's been an issue.
7. SunGard’s Workplace Recovery Evolution 2001 2010 Location Connectivity Recover to any / multiple sites Flexible recovery – near and far Rollback to another site Recover Anywhere TM Secure, hosted, flexible dealing
11. Business Pains No company ICT assets deployed with Recover Anywhere TM Home workers need ICT field recovery services to maintain company laptops, etc Leverage local, serviced offices: ICT delivered by Recover Anywhere TM For security we require staff to work in offices not WFH Admin only, no physical assets to maintain or deploy Doing it yourself is very costly: consumes time, needs maintenance, admin and security Affordable way to keep everyone working ATOD loss of productivity – staff do nothing at home Relief Business Pain
12. Business Pains Convenient, sustainable for lengthy disruptions Mitigate long-term disruptions Optional extra with SunGard WFH: Unable to record customer calls Usual telephony experience, seamlessly extended to staff working remotely WFH: a poor in bound telephony experience for your customers Plugs geographic recovery deserts No convenient recovery centre for staff Recover more staff cost-effectively Customers demand greater resilience Part of holistic, scalable, resilient service, that dilutes risk Regulators want greater resilience: too much risk concentration in one area Relief Business Pain
13. Recover Anywhere TM Rigorous process to ensure genuine use and availability Risk management process in the spirit of Workplace Recovery Reduces confusion and apprehension about making business calls and eliminates expense related issues Dialling and billing system that ensure no business calls are charged to your staff Multiple layers of security to protect customers data and telephony integrity Physical and logical security measures Staff can fully participate in day to day business operations including inbound calls Direct dial and hunt groups still available Creates a single, seamless recovery environment spanning anywhere you allow your staff to work from It may be advantageous to convert some of your physical workplace positions to virtual ATOD – ability to flex your recovery provision to suit the disruption No new ICT assets to buy, deploy, manage update or recall Leverages your staff’s access to existing IT and telephony capability Multiple layers of resilience Resilient, secure data centres, for servers, NettApps storage, with VMWare VMotion always-on environment Complete office enabling full work participation VDI desktop and telecoms infrastructure Benefits Features
In our experience Workplace or Workplace recovery was suitable and cost effective to recover 20-40% of the critical workforce but it is difficult to justify for non critical staff. And some disruptive phenomea can frustrate physical workplace recovery. Technologies such as VPN are a useful alternative tool to provide remote access but if you have to provide an emergency remote device or PC it soon becomes too costly. And At time of disaster some users fluster with new technology processes, that they forget how to use their office technology. Some users find rich applications tend not to run so well in a terminal services environment. And in terms of working from home, some businesses have major concerns about their data ending up on home PCs. At the same time virtualised desktop adoption is increasing and its capability to provide a computing experience at home is attractive to CIOs who need offer a secure, controllable working from home experience.
In the past the mantra of all critical staff must work together is being challenged. People in traditional office roles are becoming increasingly more mobile as both Government and the private sector rationalise their physical office estates and adopt a more mobile and flexible way of working. Furthermore organisations are offering staff the ability to work from home instead of pay increases. So resilient connectivity to the business from anywhere has become super critical. Therefore the need to recover complex comms and connectivity infrastructures is also essential to the business.
With these drivers in mind, SunGard has created the Recover Anywhere solution which could be articulated in two main ways. But essentially as a customer with Recover Anywhere you will be able to extend your recovery capability deeper into your business, cost effectively recovering more people - to increase productivity at time of disaster. The more people you recover, the faster your business recovers and the better the experience is for your customers.
So in a very practical sense, as yet there is no recovery silver bullet that mitigates every disruptive event. Workplace and Virtual solutions have their respective strengths and limitations. And whilst desktop virtualisation and home working is being painted as the silver bullet it can be neutralised by power outages, comms outages and broadband contention. Therefore the only credible recovery strategy to adopt is a holistic one that includes both workplace and virtualisation.
We spoke earlier about the importance of connectivity being critical to the modern way of working in these cost conscious times and the need to work closer with customers which often means working at their site locations. Since 2001, the connectivity element of SunGard recovery services has been growing in importance and capability. And this places SunGard in a very credible position to respond the needs of customers today. Since 2001 this capability has brought more flexibility benefits to customers as we have been able to provide connectivity to data and telephony anywhere across our physical recovery estate regardless of customers choosing multiple recovery sites and complex processes such as dealing and multiple working shift patterns. This capability was recognised at the 2010 CIR BC awards for secure hosted flexible dealing. With Recover Anywhere we take this a giant step further by extending this connectivity capability beyond our physical estate, thereby creating one seamless recovery environment comprised of physical and virtualised recovery environments.
So SunGard's Recover Anywhere solution is comprised of our in house capability and infrastructure: 1 Physical Workplace Recovery Centres 2 Virtualised desktop technology 3 Multi-site connectivity
Together the holistic nature of the service means customers can recover their staff anywhere so long as their staff have access to a PC, phone and broadband. ie SunGard Recovery centres, your branch offices, serviced offices, working from home or on the move. Anywhere that best suits your people and business! And that’s an important point because if you have to mitigate a long-term disruption where you recover to must be convenient and not disrupt the private lives of your staff. Otherwise your recovery plan may start to disintegrate as the more junior staff weigh up their loyalty to the survival of the business or the need to take care of dependants and their social commitments. Keeping recovery local and convenient is essential.
Recover Anywhere offers an attractive price point at which you can mobilise those workers you would ideally like to mobilise and have working ASAP rather than have them at home doing nothing. Of course you could provide this service yourself. SunGard aims to provide a service that is more cost effective and takes the pain of DIY away, so you can focus on what really delivers back to your customers. In this case we have done away with the need to procure, distribute, maintain and recall hardware assets. If you require your non critical staff to recover to local offices you can utilise your other offices, branch offices and even serviced offices. Simply use Recover Anywhere to provide the connectivity to your usuual information and telephony. And of course for the staff you choose to recover at home, you do not need to provide a PC and phone. Recover Anywhere utilises domestic PCs and phones.
If the regulators require your business to have greater resilience. Recover Anywhere is arguably the most cost effective resilient environment you can buy that mitigates most known disruptions. The same is true if your customers are putting pressure on you to be more resilient and of course with SunGard you have that extra reassurance in our business being BS25999 –II compliant. Most Recovery centres tend be located within a central belt that runs up England and Scotland which leaves the outer regions of the UK with a considerable journey time to reach a recovery centre. With Recover Anywhere you can plug recovery gaps. Working from Home (WFH) without a good inbound telephony experience may not be ideal for your customers, colleagues and suppliers when they need really need to speak with you. Recover Anywhere provides a full telephony experience so your stakeholders can always call you. WFH means that with some recovery providers call recording isn’t possible. With SunGard it will be an optional extra later in 2010. Long term disruptions tends to stretch the loyalty of lesser paid staff especially if the journey time to a recovery centre is lengthy and impinges on their life outside of work. If staff refuse to continue commuting or decide to leave your recovery plan may come under serious pressure and possible failure. Recover Anywhere brings a local and convenient benefit to your staff.
With Recover Anywhere, it is worth rethinking your recovery strategy as Recover Anywhere offers you further options. In strategy 1: 30-40 % of staff are recovered into a Workplace Recovery Centre. Field based staff (in green) are already equipped with laptops, VPN connectivity and mobile phones. However 20-30% of the ideal to recover staff are not recovered. Historically it has just been to costly to recover these staff. With Recover Anywhere you can begin to fill this gap as the price points are more attractive. This means that ATOD, staff normally sent home to do nothing can be productive and help the business return to normal ASAP. In strategy 2: The virtual contract flexibility (in red) of Recover Anywhere enables you to ATOD swap an element of your Workplace positions for virtual positions which means rather than journeying to a workplace recovery centre, a proportion of your critical staff could work from home. Which means that to offer all your critical staff a work from home capability you need only purchase the remaining balance. In model 3 the contract flexibility leverages the positions bought across three sites for those customers who wanted to recover a higher number of staff in Workplace recovery centres either because of regulation or because you need near and far recovery strategies. What you have is a single seamless recovery environment with all staff productive.
SunGard is leveraging significant technology investment to offer customers a credible, resilient and scalable infrastructure platform on which to base the Recover Anywhere solution. All the respective technology is the standardised and repeated across our estate to avoid conflicts, ensure quality and enhance recovery speed.
On the physical estate each site is connected by dual, diverse, multi Gb links in separate trunks. The network enables customers to access their data from any location. The PBX is centralised and split across two resilient data centres enabling SunGard customers to access their telephony from any site and beyond.
In this slide you can see how the home or Recover Anywhere service dove tails into the physical estate.
1 Receive an authenticated URI and a separate password 2 Login to access the service 3 Normal login to your PC 4 Login to the phone
SunGard’s security principles was to ensure that n o electronic company data leaves your business and we wanted to eliminate customers hardware security exposure be that perceived or real, after all, nobody wants to be headline news re a security scare. And we didn’t want to burden customers with the need to physically distribute, maintain and recall dongles, CDs, USB keys, headsets and hardware. So we have adapted a proven existing remote access service used by customers to access servers remotely that meets stringent security demands. ie Remote Console.
Select physical Workplace recovery site/s required Determine the physical shared positions required Nominate your preferred rollback sites For every physical workplace recovery position you buy you can buy one Recover Anywhere virtual position At Time of Disaster (AToD) you can flex your contract and convert up to 50% of your shared physical workplace positions Or ATOD you could double your virtual positions providing it does not exceed 50% of your physical positions. Existing Workplace customers: minimum order of 10 virtual positions New Customers: Minimum order of 20 Workplace & 10 virtual positions The same risk policy is applied to our virtual positions: ie the risk is evaluated as it approaches 25:1.
Select physical Workplace recovery site/s required Determine the physical shared positions required Nominate your preferred rollback sites For every physical workplace recovery position you buy you can buy one Recover Anywhere virtual position At Time of Disaster (AToD) you can flex your contract and convert up to 50% of your shared physical workplace positions Or ATOD you could double your virtual positions providing it does not exceed 50% of your physical positions. Existing Workplace customers: minimum order of 10 virtual positions New Customers: Minimum order of 20 Workplace & 10 virtual positions The same risk policy is applied to our virtual positions: ie the risk is evaluated as it approaches 25:1.
At Time of Disaster (AToD) you can flex and convert some of the shared physical element of your contract by up to a maximum 50% on a 1:1 basis subject to availability AToD. In example 1 ie 200 Physical Workplace positions and 100 virtual positions ATOD can be flexed to become: 100 Physical and 200 virtual positions. In example 2 the lesser model applies as the customer did not need to buy up to the maximum amount of virtual positions ie 50% of their physical workplace positions. But ATOD the customer can double the amount of virtual positions bought.
This is an optional but valuable service. Its objective is to really help you understand how to best apply this new recovery capability and maximise the value you derive from the service. We approach this by taking a business impact analysis and then apply how you could best use Recover Anywhere to mitigate potential disruptions. Some of these questions you may be thinking about could be answered by this service.
If you didn’t want to undertake consultancy, SunGards CMS WorkForce Assessment tool /survey can help you to answer many questions in terms of understanding who might be suitable for home recovery and if they are technically equipped to do so. Or perhaps they have additional skills that could be useful ATOD. Or do they have dependencies that may prevent them from working late or early. CMS WorkForce Assessment can help you find the answers quickly.
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