(This is part 4 of a 7-part series sharing insights from Cisco partners about the Future of Cloud.)

At Cisco Live!, Derek Siler, Director, Solution Engineering -Channel Sales at Sungard Availability Services, shared his company's vision of the cloud and how they bring value to the market.  "Our real unique differentiation is our focus on availability and our ability to give a very resilient hosted environment for production instances," said Siler.  "We have Cisco Powered cloud services for both hosting and instances of a client's production environment.  We can do that with our managed cloud, which has all the benefits of a multi-tenant cloud environment but a full managed service layer all the way up to the operating system.  We also have a true public cloud offering which has that elastic spin up/ spin down capability."

Building a resilient cloud that can carry businesses into the future requires a resilient foundation.  "We've been with a Cisco partner from a technology perspective for years," said Siler.  "We've also been in the Cisco partner network for multiple years now too.  We've even won a Cisco Cloud partner of the year award.  We were very honored to receive that recognition."

"Not only do we work extensively with Cisco, we work with many of the top Cisco partners in the Cisco partner ecosystem.  We're building our cloud future around Cisco and around enterprise-grade architectures."

"For us, Cisco is absolutely vital."

You can also learn more about how providers are addressing the need for enterprise class services in the latest edition of Unleashing IT.