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WORLD TRADE CENTER And Related Recoveries Len Guddemi Vice President Northeast Operations Comdisco Confidential
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SunGard Worldwide Disaster Support Experience Recoveries per Year
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Terrorist Attack 100/19% Hardware 97/18% Hurricane 84/16% Power Outage 76/14% Flood 57/11% Fire/Explosion 27/5% Miscellaneous 20/4% Earthquake 19/4% Bomb 16/3% Telecomm 14/3% Software 10/2% Environmental 8/2% Data Center 7/1% Civil Unrest 2/0% Disruption Cause: Number/Percentage SunGard Worldwide Disaster Support Experience
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DEC 43/8% AS/400 56/10% Sun 16/3% Item Processing 5/1% NT Server 4/1% Trading Floor 19/4% Advanced Recovery 13/2% Miscellaneous 26/5% HP 22/4% Workarea Recovery 130/24% Mainframe 138/26% RS/6000 10/2% Unisys 2/0% Mobile Cluster 3/1% Systems On-site Mobile 39/7% Tandem 3/1% Shell 7/1% Stratus 1/0% SunGard Worldwide Disaster Support Experience Recovery Platforms Used: Quantity/Percentage
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Terrorist Attack 1154/20% Flood 691/12% Hardware Problem 666/12% Power Outage 370/7% Miscellaneous 858/15% Fire/Explosion 359/6% Hurricane 318/6% Data Center Move 269/5% Earthquake 136/2% Bomb 146/3% Environmental 573/10% Civil Unrest 3/0% Telecomm 30/1% SunGard Worldwide Disaster Support Experience Days of Occupancy: Days/Percentage
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Declaration Information n Number of Events Overall - 93 Schedules, 47 Customers Simultaneous High Point - 76 Declarations, 16 Facilities, 14 Platforms Comdisco Confidential Reason Facilities Unavailable Loss of Power, telecommunications, denied access to buildings, concerns over building structural safety
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Atlanta: Work Area Seats, Remote Sun, AS400, RS6000 Carlstadt: Voice/Work Area, Business Recovery/Quick Ship, Trading Floor, Dedicated Seats, SUN, AS400, DEC/VAX, RS6000, HP9000, Intel Based Servers; Dedicated HP9000, RS6000, NT Servers Boston: SUN, Work Area Cypress: Work Area, Remote Tandem Mobile Recovery: 13 Units/5,000sq.ft., 10 Units/3,000sq.ft. for Work Area Minnetonka: Work Area Comdisco Confidential North Bergen: Voice/Work Area, Main-Frame, ARS & Networking Phoenix: Work Area Queens: Work Area, Trading Floor, Dedicated, Trading PIT Rosemont: Work Area San Ramon: Work Area, Trading Floor Wood Dale: DEC/VAX, DEC/Alpha, VAX3100, VAX7620, Filenet, AS400, Tandem Wood Cliff Lake: Intel Servers, Work Area Jersey City, workgroup, AS/400 Philadelphia: Work area, RS6000, AS/400,Mainframe, Voice Herndon: Work Area Warminster: Work Area,Unisys SunGard Sites & Platforms
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Declaration Information - Continued n Under-subscription or additional needs assessment remains an issue Many businesses requested additional needs ATOD n Responded to over 500 special requests for service. n Built out with best efforts n This puts recovery & business continuity at risk due to extended recovery timeline. n Personnel & Intellectual Property Keys to Recovery Methodologies, ideas and documented plans utilized. Assigned backup roles and succession planning implemented. Intellectual capital and personnel in alternate locations. Use of professional organizations to augment staff. Comdisco Confidential Items of Note Implement Your Plan & Associated Vendor Services with Urgency 14 Declarations in 30 minutes; 24 within 1 hour; 19 in 2 nd hour You will be in competition with other business for services & manufacturers Quickly establish damage assessment & need for services, and implement
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Declaration Information - Continued n Air Travel Unavailable Delayed delivery of offsite stored media to recovery location n Identify alternate means of transportation n Assess need for electronic journaling of data to alternate location Expert staff unable to travel n Identify options for local access by staff to remote alternate systems (and possibly home systems) n Assess value of ‘turnkey’ type services with vendors n Offsite Storage Critical Evaluate for frequency, completeness Paper records and transactions may be totally lost Evaluate if your offsite storage is far enough away Evaluate need/value of electronic journaling Comdisco Confidential Items of Note - Continued Reluctance to Travel End Users generally won’t travel far from home. Ensure adequate end user facilities available nearby (about 50 miles)
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Declaration Information - Continued n Active Testers More successful at meeting RTO/RPO More realistic understanding of application performance Fewer problems n Very High Demand for Voice Recovery Realistically evaluate needs: line trunking, extensions, call recording, voice mail, call forwarding n Avoid Fast Busy Comdisco Confidential Items of Note - Continued High Availability Solutions Extremely Successful Electronic Journaling, Data Base Mirroring, SRDF, etc. 45 Terabytes ready very quickly Data requiring physical transport delayed
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SunGard Challenges & Tactics n Disaster Hotline & Notification Increased Staff handling incoming Disaster calls n Security Immediate increase in security staff on all shifts. Contacted local authorities to assist in access control n Additional Staff Request for additional support staff Mobil Recovery Team n Additional Resource Contacted third party vendors Arranged additional parking with neighbors
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SunGard Challenges & Tactics n Implemented Swat Support Teams Established 24/7 Command Center at Corporate HQ with Open Bridge SunGard Canadian employees, Illinois, Minneapolis, and Texas employees drove to Carlstadt & North Bergen to help SunGard’s Professional Services Consultants, Sales, Sales Support, Administration and SunGard’s Operations staff worked side by side. Dispatched relief support from other SunGard facilities once air travel restored Activated facilities, equipment procurement, shipping and solutions teams to respond to special requests Received offers of help from customers n Gratefully declined n Network Alternate Routing Critical Significant damage due to the event Fiber cut after event by construction/demolition crews SunGard alternate routings worked without issue Vendors terrific with T1s, DS3 installations in days Comdisco Confidential SunGard Facilities and Staff not directly affected
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Customer Challenges & Tactics Comdisco Confidential Inaccurate Needs Assessment Special requests for PCs, & Servers IP addressing Storage Tape Drives Electricity Processing power LAN bridging Televisions & Printers Network capability, Voice services & Routers Faxes Software and more
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Customer Challenges & Tactics n Logistics Travel Restriction an Impact - used ground travel for many shipments Shipped over 4,200 PCs along with much other equipment Customer parking, bussing, and catering Comdisco Confidential Getting Restoration Media to Alternate Site Transportation challenge Complete set available and labeled Missing or unavailable documentation Start-up scripts Run instructions
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Learned / Re-Affirmed n Important to Have a Team Leader for Each Shift n Integration of recovery requirements into change control Number of PCs, Positions Network Capabilities Processors, disk, tape capabilities Printers, fax machines PBX features & functionality Platform Technology upgrades, changes, maintenance n Importance of Quick Assessment & Implementation of Plan when appropriate Comdisco Confidential Value in Pre-Planning Staff Placement within Rooms End User priorities & usage End User equipment requirements – avoids setting up more than once
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Learned / Re-Affirmed - Continued n Value of Solid Backup Records Program Tape, electronic, & paper records foundation of recovery n Evaluate right balance for your company Documented & labeled so vendor(s) can assist Have scripts shipped with restore media or stored at alternate location Frequency of backups Offsite location & transportation dependencies Examine benefit of electronic transmission of offsite storage data n Can significantly improve recovery time and reduce data loss Comdisco Confidential Evaluate Strategy of Shared versus Dedicated Resources Guarantees resource access for some number of most critical requirements Complement with shared resources PC Image Restoration Tool Effective Ghost, or similar
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Learned / Re-Affirmed - Continued n Basics are Fundamental Establish personnel roles & assign backup Document methodologies, ideas, business plans & recovery plans Review, update & follow established procedures Test the way you would recover, recover the way you test Worthwhile to review how home procedures apply in alternate site production mode n Offsite Storage, Disk mirroring, Miscellaneous other Comdisco Confidential Revisit your Plan & Recovery Requirements Often – Technology & Business In Times of Need, Help Comes From Many Sources
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Customer Comments Comdisco Confidential “Although operating in our primary location is preferred, the equipment, professional and courteous staff, and outstanding overall accommodations provided for an effective and successful business recovery. I am glad that we have contracted with your organization!” “ I have in the past worked with a number of outstanding individuals, but never before have I worked with such a highly functional, customer service oriented team. Individually each team member I have had the pleasure to deal with was exceptional; as a team there is none better.”
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Customer Comments “Thanks for all the support and assistance. We’re glad you are here.” Comdisco Confidential “I would like you to know of the "more than wonderful" service we are receiving at the SunGard site.... have gone out of their way to assist us with some special needs.... have answered numerous questions and assisted --she is great.... worked with ENS last night, assisted me with set up so I can stay on line (due to the situation in New York and the weather closing down our site) and has been a great help to the IT staff.” “ I would like you to know it is people like this that make SunGard a vendor we choose to depend on in the event of an emergency. Please pass this message along to their managers, it would be greatly appreciated.”
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