Business Continuity and Resiliency Services

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Business continuity and disaster recovery strategies to keep you open for business, no matter what

How security and business resilience can protect business value. This is key for your business.

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Help with your business recovery

We've provided business continuity and disaster recovery services for more than 50 years.
We run 10,000 disaster recovery tests globally every year.
We have a global presence with over 160 resiliency centers across 70 countries.

Can you bet your business continuity on your current disaster recovery plans? Industry analysts agree many companies that suffer a major outage will not survive for long in a competitive market. IT infrastructure, resiliency, continuity and online business data backup—all are fundamental to your continued business success.Business continuity and resiliency services from IBM can offer the insight and expertise you need to manage the risks your business faces today and in the future.

What we offer

IBM Infrastructure Recovery Services

Enable your business to be ready, running and resilient.
Business Continuity Services

Identify and fill gaps in your current continuity strategy with a robust continuity program aligned to business needs, budgets and best practices
Crisis management services

Minimise the impact of unforeseen events, from the minor to the catastrophic, with crisis management services to support your employees, communications and infrastructure.
Disaster Recovery Services

Address common gaps in disaster planning, with the goal of responding more effectively to a disruptive event and minimising the costs and time associated with recovery
High availability services - limit your RPO & RTO to a minimum

In case of a calamity, your IT can be transferred immediately to our recovery centre.
Managed Resiliency Services

Avoid costly downtime with near-continuous infrastructure
SmartCloud Archive

Improve content management and data retention and availability through cloud-based archiving
SmartCloud Managed backup - maximum protection, minimum investment

Solid data protection services that have been designed in such a way that critical business data is safeguarded automatically and can be recovered easily.
SmartCloud Resilience Services

Capturing cloud technology to deliver effective business resiliency

More details

We want to work with you to support your ever-changing needs and help ensure your success. Our global delivery capabilities and proven methods stand behind all of our resiliency and continuity solutions. Our organization serves more than 9,000 business continuity and resiliency clients globally. Our record speaks for itself.

We can work with you to achieve significant financial advantages and improvements in recovery service-level performance. Choose from our range of proactive and event-driven managed services depending on the criticality of your data and processes. And, new opportunities for cost effectively managing resilience are available with our scalable, end-to-end, cloud-based backup and recovery solutions for data and applications. Based on your requirements, we can:

Advise: help identify, quantify and prioritize business and IT risks, and create strategies and plans to address those risks. Learn how our resiliency consulting services can help you maintain continuous operations.

Manage: help you balance workloads and reduce application, data and system loss. Learn how we can help you maintain business continuity.

Protect: help enable reliable, automated data protection—offsite or onsite—through a range of managed services. Learn how our cloud services can help you with disaster recovery and online business data backup.

Mitigate: help eliminate the impact of disruptive events with IT and work area recovery. Learn about our IT disaster recovery services.

Let's talk. Every day, businesses become more complex and interconnected. The risk and high cost of disruption extend well beyond IT to virtually every aspect of your business. Contact us to learn how a world-class, fully integrated solution can build continuity into every layer of your business.