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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

SunGard in $14 million Center City expansion

SunGard Availability, the corporate computer backup service run by Wayne-based SunGard Data, has invested $14 million in a 12,200 sq ft expansion of its secure data center in the 1500 block of Spring Garden St.

The new area hosts servers that enable clients to recover their data after power outages and other service interruptions, and to access web-based data through new SunGard cloud-based services.

Intech Construction and subcontractors including Goldner Mechanical and Kerrigan Electric kept more than 100 workers busy over the past 8 months, says Robert Salvatore, director of sustainability at the site. Besides the new space, SunGard has doubled its electrical generators on site to 8,000 kilowatts, and added electrical and mechanical rooms. Heat-generating units were connected to a "chimney cabinet" system to cut down on cooling needs.

It's the second planned expansion since SunGard opened the site on a 125,000 sq ft floor of the former Smith Kline pill factory in 2009. "We've had a very good upward tick in services orders," said Curtis Hampshire, vice president for managed services. "The growth has been so good, we already have orders for a quarter of the capacity we've just built." Compaines spend a lot on their enterprise software; complexity is increasing at any layer." While cloud-based services cost less than traditional server-based recovery, higher volumes help make up the difference.

Larry Coble, senior vice president and general manager of Recovery Servcies, says a similar expansion is expected at the unit next year, and another in 2013. "After that we'll have to find additional space," said Salvatore.

SunGard Availability employs around 800 at the Spring Garden St site and two other Center City sites, and at its Wayne headqauarters.
Posted by Joseph N. DiStefano @ 4:05 PM  Permalink | 6 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:21 PM, 10/05/2011
    I'm sure Nutter and City Council will find a way to make them regret expanding in Philadelphia and not moving to the suburbs.
    — Gilliam
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:36 PM, 10/05/2011
    Gilliam why are you always so snide and negative about everything. Just what would you do, or better yet what have you done that is news worthy in making our geographical area a better place to live?
    — phillytransplant
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:10 PM, 10/05/2011
    I think Gilliam (and a LOT of other people who post here) need to get out of their jammies, turn off Faux News, wash the Cheetos stains off their fingers, and come out and see what the real world is like.
    They have nothing better to do than make up problems and weird scenarios and then post about these fantasies instead of anything real.
    — Tatts
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:31 PM, 10/05/2011
    Gilliam - and get a life. I wonder what Republican suburb he lives in? Or is he just some Republican hack just urinating on anything good - just to be another negative pathetic ...
    — SoundGround
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:16 PM, 10/05/2011
    Gilliam could be right...are unions involved?
    — th
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:00 PM, 10/05/2011
    Again, the boo-birds republicans on here are always looking for the dark cloud - even if it's bright out.
    — SoundGround


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About Joseph N. DiStefano
Joseph N. DiStefano writes this blog to feed his PhillyDeals column in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Joe has been a member of Bloomberg LP’s New York Finance Team, wrote the book “Comcasted,” taught writing at St. Joseph’s University, and studied economics and history at Penn. Reach Joe at 215-854-5194 and JoeD@phillynews.com
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