privately held industry information technology founded 1978 headquarters wayne pennsylvania usa key people andrew a. stern ceo products disaster recovery enterprise cloud services managed services consulting services business continuity software number of employees 3 000 website www.sungardas.com sungard availability services is a provider of it production and recovery services with annual revenues of approximately 1.4 billion 1 and offices in 9 countries . 2 the company uses its experience in recovery to design build and run production environments that are more resilient and available . with 3 000 it and business professionals the company manages 20 mobile facilities staged in strategic locations and 90 hardened it facilities connected by a redundant global dedicated network backbone . 3 sungard availability services split off from sungard data systems inc. on april 1 2014 4 to become an independent company . history edit sungard data systems sds is formed in 1983 through the leveraged buy out of a division of sun oil company . in 1986 the sungard data systems went public through an ipo and was listed on the nasdaq as sndt . in 1997 their listing shifted to the nyse as sds . in 2001 sungard acquired comdisco s 5 business continuity services extending the company s reach to europe . additional acquisitions of guardian it 6 2002 and inflow 7 2005 further extended the company s reach . in 2005 sds is purchased in transaction valued at 11.3 billion by a team led by silverlake . 8 additional sds acquisitions followed including their 2007 purchase of vericenter 9 to provide managed hosting and production availability and a 2010 acquisition of 365 hosting limited 10 an ireland based hosted infrastructure provider of managed services and cloud offerings . in 2014 sungard availability services became an independent operating firm after its split from sds . 11 references edit sungard availability services revenue and financial reports . hoovers . retrieved 2015 09 24 . sungard as global offices . sungard as . retrieved 2015 09 24 . sungard availability services overview . sungard as . retrieved 2015 09 24 . sungard splits in two . philly.com . retrieved 2015 09 24 . sungard completes comdisco acquisition . philadelphia business journal . retrieved 2015 09 24 . sungard says guardian deal a go . philadelphia business journal . retrieved 2015 09 24 . finextra news sungard availability services acquires inflow . finextra research . retrieved 2015 09 24 . silver lake leads purchase of sungard . san francisco business times . retrieved 2015 09 24 . prn sungard acquires vericenter . houston chronicle . retrieved 2015 09 24 . sungard acquires hosting 365 . business wire . retrieved 2015 09 24 . sungard splits in two . philly.com . retrieved 2015 09 24 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sungard availability services & oldid 743824802 categories companies based in delaware county pennsylvaniainformation technology companies of the united statesamerican companies established in 19781978 establishments in pennsylvaniaprivately held companies based in pennsylvaniatechnology companies established in 1978 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 13 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view