SunGard expands cloud services portfolio

Web Host Industry Review reports.

The new feature further improves the built-in resilience of SunGard's enterprise-ready infrastructure as a service offering by helping customers reduce the risk and exposure associated with making system changes to live cloud environments.

According to MSP News, the Managed Workflow enhancement enables Enterprise Cloud Services customers to work within the SunGard cloud portal to modify their infrastructure.

This measure offers a safeguard against avoidable outages while simultaneously delivering rapid provisioning of new cloud services.

Customers can remotely log into these virtual machines and perform a wide variety of administrative tasks such as restarting a VM or applying a patch, Market Watch says.

"There is a need in certain, non-critical cloud environments, for instant response to change requests in an environment. However, the evaluation of a change request is vital for live production environments, where a system change can create a problem that may take down the entire infrastructure," said Mark Bowker, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.