London, UK - 23 October, 2009: IPI, a recognised leader in the design, installation and support of national and global secure networking infrastructures, has partnered with SunGard Availability Services to offer its customers access to the full range of SunGard's services, including Managed IT Services, Electronic Data Vaulting, Workplace Recovery and Consulting. The agreement allows IPI to provide its customers with a network of resilient data centre support from SunGard, including Technology Centre 4 (TC4) in Elland, which serves the Leeds and Manchester area. SunGard Availability Services is the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability services .

The location of TC4 and the network of SunGard's services are ideal for IPI given its national customer base, which includes organisations across retail, construction, financial and legal sectors. IPI designs bespoke solutions for each of its customers including local and wide area networks, security and voice solutions. Working with SunGard Availability Services helps IPI customers to benefit from SunGard's UK wide portfolio of flexible and scalable solutions, just as if SunGard was another site on their corporate network. SunGard's UK facilities include four highly resilient Technology Centres and 20-plus recovery sites, providing optimum resilience and availability due to the triangulation of diverse and separate tera-and giga-bit links- IPI customers adopting these services will benefit from SunGard's highly resilient and supported IT infrastructure.

Don McQueen, IPI's Managing Director, made the following statement regarding the partnership; "For many years IPI has been providing highly resilient local and wide area network services to a wide variety of customers. The partnership with SunGard allows us to provide a new dimension to our ever evolving portfolio which enhances our customer solutions and helps meet the varied requirements of each customer. We have a reputation for excellent service delivery and support, so it makes sense to partner with an industry leading company that shares the same values and has a proven ability to do so."

Keith Tilley, managing director UK and executive vice president Europe, SunGard Availability Services, said: "We're working with an increasing number of organisations that are recognising the benefits of outsourcing their data centre operations to us to manage, allowing them to focus on their key business. Resilience and recoverability are essential to the success of any organisation, particularly during a recession when round-the-clock availability is crucial - not just to delivering consistent and reliable levels of service, but for instilling customer confidence.

"The locality of our Technology Centres in Elland and the London area, the resilience of our wider network of facilities, and our ability to provide a full range of managed IT services, means IPI and its customers will not miss a beat when it comes to keeping their data safe and available 24/7."

Notes to Editors

About IPI
IPI is the UK's most innovative and reliable Managed Telecommunications Service Provider, delivering impeccable levels of customer service. Our track record of excellent service, delivery and support has resulted in continual growth as more and more customers are choosing IPI for their networking, security and voice requirements

This growth has resulted in IPI achieving Tech Track 100 status for the past two consecutive years and is one of the most financially stable businesses in the telecommunications industry today. For our customers this means we are constantly investing in our network and support functions, to continually improve on an already excellent service offering, allowing us to meet continually evolving requirements.

About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services is the pioneer and leading provider of information availability solutions, helping to ensure that 10,000 customers in North America and Europe have access to their business-critical information systems. With five million square feet of operations space, SunGard offers a complete range of information availability solutions that include professional services, recovery solutions and managed IT solutions. SunGard provides services to support an always-on production environment, as well as over 30 technology platforms to support customers who require a traditional 24-48 hour recovery time frame. SunGard also has technology and systems management services for application and data centre outsourcing, as well as business continuity consulting services and planning software. Visit SunGard Availability Services UK at www.sungard.co.uk

SunGard Availability Services (UK) Limited has been recognised as Service Provider of the Year an unprecedented five times in the Business Continuity Awards' ten-year history, and has been a finalist on all but one occasion: a track record unequalled in the industry. In 2008, SunGard was presented the 10th Anniversary Award for Outstanding Excellence in Business Continuity. SunGard and its customers have also achieved success in the Most Innovative Product, Most Effective Recovery, Industry Personality, Lifetime Achievement and Consultant of the Year categories, amongst others.

Representing Intellect, the trade association, on the steering committee for BS 25999, SunGard helped to define the first standard of its kind, which is alerting the wider business community to the importance of business continuity management. SunGard then became the first business continuity expert to secure certification against the BS 25999 Standard. It is now in the unique position of being able to assist its customers - both large and small alike - through the certification process drawing on its own experience.

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.

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 six times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.

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

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