As Hurricane Katrina cuts a wide swath of destructionthrough parts of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, many businesses
have been forced to activate emergency backup plans due to flooding,
power outages, and other adverse conditions. Not surprisingly, SunGard
Data Systems Inc. has seen a sharp increase in the demand for its
availability services as businesses affected by the storm cut over to
the company's various backup and recovery sites.
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The intensity of the storm also is likely to keep clients at SunGard or
other backup facilities longer than most emergencies, says Bob DiLossi,
manager of SunGard Availability Services' crisis management center in
Philadelphia. Some companies are talking about staying for two or three
weeks, more than double the average time that companies generally
operate remotely during an emergency. In addition to servers and other
data-center infrastructure equipment, SunGard clients are calling for
workspace for their employees who need connectivity to the Web and to
telephone lines ...

Thoughts are with those whose lives have been affected. SunGard sounds like it is doing it's part to help with the business end of things.

Steve Shu