IBM Launches New Cloud-based Disaster Recovery and Backup Services

By Justin Lee, June 20, 2011

A screenshot of IBM SmartCloud Resilience services page

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IBM (http://www.ibm.com/) announced on Monday it has launched IBM SmartCloud Resilience services (http://www.ibmbusinesscontinuityindex.com/), its new cloud services that enable clients to protect, store and quickly retrieve critical data in the event of a disaster.

The new services allow customers to protect their data and applications faster, cheaper and in a more flexible manner than in the past with a traditional data center environment.

Previously, companies created many images of servers and applications operating at multiple data center sites, which would only add to the complexity and cost of IT management.

The IBM SmartCloud now offers companies with different sizes of virtual and physical server recovery service that continuously replicates their applications and all associated data on a secure cloud infrastructure.

This enables them to get their business up and running in minutes after experiencing an outage in their IT infrastructure.

IBM's cloud allows clients to securely manage and balance workloads, lower application and system downtime, and reduce data loss.

"Now more than ever, companies are relying on a massive amount of data to run their businesses, storing it longer and retrieving it as needed," said Rick Ruiz, general manager of IBM's business continuity and resiliency services. "This creates a need for a business resilience strategy that will ensure continuous operation and create a competitive advantage to enable growth opportunities. Our new cloud services bring flexibility, scalability, and rapid provisioning to help accomplish that."

The new services also include IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery, which increases the reliability and efficiency of recovery to help practically eliminate business downtime, and minimize data loss.
Users can access the services through a Web-based to rapidly bring back their business on IBM's recovery infrastructure in case of outage, replicating both server software and associated data continuously.

Another key service, IBM SmartCloud Archive, is designed to meet strict privacy and regulatory compliance, from advanced search and indexing and retrieval, to eDiscovery capabilities.

The service provides clients with an advanced document and records management system to deal with structured and unstructured content, control over rising data storage costs, and improved availability of critical business content.

The new services complement IBM's existing SmartCloud Managed Backup offering which provides flexible, automatic management and monitoring of backup and recovery processes.

This service can be combined with the Archive and Virtualized services for storage, data protection and replication.

Other cloud-based business continuity tools include the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery 6.2, which provides disaster recovery software that can be enabled as a cloud storage option.

The two new services will be available starting July 19 in certain markets as a part of the IBM SmartCloud portfolio, which consists of enterprise cloud technologies and services offerings for private, public and hybrid clouds based on IBM hardware, software, services and best practices.

 
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