Disaster Recovery

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst

Clients need to minimize the impact of unforeseen events—from the minor to the catastrophic—with the goal of responding more effectively to disruptions and minimizing the costs and time associated with recovery. Protecting data and IT infrastructure in the event of a disruptive situation has become an increasing and more visible business priority in recent years.

IBM offers IT recovery options, with a wide range of solutions, from in-house recovery technologies to highly complex recovery environments, and work area recovery to addresses lost employee productivity during a disruption. Working with IBM, you can better recover from events that could otherwise greatly damage your operations and brand reputation.

Effective response to contingencies

Coming to grips with the many different possible disasters that could strike is hard. So is prioritizing them for business impact, and designing a holistic strategy to respond to them. Furthermore, that strategy should be flexible so that it can both adjust to unexpected conditions and change over time to ensure that organizational resiliency can be maximized even in a worst-case scenario. All of this suggests the need for a trusted advisor with deep knowledge and directly relevant solutions and services.

Specifically IBM offers:

• IT recovery
  • Offers comprehensive, flexible recovery options tailored to meet your specific technical and business requirements.
  • Provides a wide range of solutions, from simple hardware replacement to highly complex recovery environments.
  • Leverages IBM's 154 business resilience centres in 55 countries to help recover client environments.
• Work area recovery
  • Addresses lost employee productivity during a disruption.
  • Delivers the technical, infrastructure and environmental quality services that employees require to operate in a recovery situation.
  • Helps limit revenue loss and address and support regulatory compliance requirements.
• Crisis management and response
  • Provides support for employee assistance, crisis communications, and infrastructure repair and replacement in the event of a crisis event.

A robust disaster recovery plan

Planning for disaster requires global resources and industry-specific expertise. IBM's vast network, capabilities, and 40 years of experience speak for themselves. We offer:

• 154 resiliency centers in 55 countries for testing, disaster declaration and work area recovery.
• Disaster recovery services for more than 12,000 clients.
• A proven track record of recovering 100% of our clients that have declared a disaster.

A robust Disaster Recovery plan from IBM can enable your business to respond and recover from virtually any disruptive events that may impact your workforce, processes, infrastructure, applications or data.