BDP International Selects SunGard Availability Services To Provide Managed Hosting For Global Data Center

BDP's Global Data Center to be Hosted at SunGard's New Philadelphia Managed Services Facility

Wayne, PA /PRNewswire/ - BDP International, a leading global logistics and transportation management organization, has selected SunGard Availability Services to provide AdvancedHosting managed services to help ensure worldwide, uninterrupted access to its corporate information systems. SunGard will host BDP's Global Data Center - the organization's primary suite of IT infrastructure hardware and software applications - in its new managed services facility in Philadelphia.

"With freight logistics centers in more than 20 cities throughout North America and a global network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and strategic partnerships in more than 120 countries, it is paramount that our IT systems are always up and running, keeping BDP clients and BDP people throughout the world connected at all times," said Richard J. Bolte, Jr., president and chief executive officer at BDP International. "We trust SunGard to provide us a world-class facility, helping save us significant time and resources while allowing us to focus on our core business. SunGard's managed services facility also supports several best practices in energy efficiency to help advance BDP's environmental sustainability strategies."

BDP International will deploy SunGard's hosting services, which combine a redundant backbone network with highly secure, always available hosting facilities and equipment - configured and managed to BDP's unique business requirements. In addition, BDP leverages capabilities from SunGard's recovery services and consulting services portfolios.

"SunGard's AdvancedHosting services will help BDP International achieve lower data center costs while improving system and application uptime," said Dave Colesante, senior vice president and general manager, managed services, at SunGard Availability Services. "Our customers rely on us for a full range of managed IT services that can be tailored to meet their individual requirements. Our entire offering is backed by SunGard's 30 years of experience in helping customers improve IT availability to support business operations."

SunGard's managed IT services allow customers to run business systems and applications at a SunGard facility rather than build and support their own data centers. In North America, SunGard has more than 30 managed services facilities, thousands of managed services customers and a hardened, highly available IT infrastructure engineered for reliability, resiliency and security.

About BDP
BDP International is one of the leading privately held freight logistics/transportation management firms based in the U.S. It operates freight logistics centers in more than 20 cities throughout North America and a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and strategic partnerships in more than 120 countries. The company serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide. BDP provides a range of services, including sea, air and land transportation; lead logistics process analysis, design and management; export freight forwarding; import customs brokerage and regulatory compliance; project and energy logistics; warehousing/consolidation/distribution; and BDPSmart(C) , a comprehensive on-line logistics customer service portal providing end-to-end global visibility of shipment information, metrics, reports via a single, Web-based interface. For more information visit: www.bdpinternational.com.

About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business. To learn more, visit www.availability.sungard.com or call 1-800-468-7483.

About SunGard
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.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.

*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker www.datamonitor.com

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SOURCE: BDP International