IBM commits $300 million to expand resiliency services

IBM has announced that it is investing $300 million to construct 13 Business Resilience service delivery centers in 10 countries in 2008, increasing its ability to address surging demand from businesses and governments from around the world seeking to keep their operations safe from disruption.

The infrastructure expansion will permit IBM clients to access services that support business continuity from a cloud computing environment.

Business continuity and resiliency services help ensure uninterrupted operations across all layers of the business, as well as helping businesses avoid, prepare and recover from a disruption.

Future Business Resilience service delivery centers will be located in every geographic region of the globe. The centers are designed to help clients maintain business operations under virtually any condition, comply with industry and government regulations and recover rapidly from disasters.

Services from IBM Information Protection Services combine IBM hardware with storage management software in a configured, rack-mounted storage appliance, known as a data protection 'vault' that is capable of storing multi-terabytes of information and applications data. The vaults are integrated with technology gained via IBM's acquisition of Arsenal Digital Solutions in 2008. The patent-pending on-demand service delivery platform enables global scalability of information protection services and rapid time-to-protection of customer data.

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