IBM Boosts Business Continuity

August 22, 2008: Due to surging demand, IBM has committed US$300 (AU$342) million to the expansion of its business continuity and resiliency services in ten countries around the world.

The move will enable big blue’s to offer continuity services from a cloud computing environment for the first time, while addressing rapidly growing demand for continuity services from both business and government.

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.

IBM says its Business Resilience service delivery centres will be located in every geographic region of the globe, with sites including Japan, UK, China, Turkey, Poland, Italy, Germany, Brazil, India, South Africa, Belgium and more.

The company says that the centres are specifically designed to help clients maintain business operations under virtually any condition, comply with industry and government regulations and recover rapidly from disasters.

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