SunGard Availability Services has unveiled a virtualization-based infrastructure and services initiative, which will extend its portfolio of information availability services to include additional virtualization and automation based IT recovery, end-user recovery, high availability and managed services. These services will provide organizations a cost-effective way to achieve recovery timeframes of less than four hours. And for times when business situations require companies to scale up their operations for short-term requirements, these services provide "capacity-on-demand."