
Overview
If disaster strikes, will you be prepared?
IBM disaster recovery services enable you to keep your losses to a minimum. They are designed to bring you back within your stated recovery time and recovery points. So you aren't left hanging.
Our services focus on helping you secure your data, keep your critical employees online, keep your key business processes running, and then - once your primary system is restored - migrate interim data back.
Planning for disaster requires global resources. IBM's vast network and capabilities speak for themselves. We offer industry-specific expertise on a global basis. We maintain 154 resiliency centers in 55 countries. And with over 15,000 recovery contracts worldwide, we have the experience to help your company recover quickly - no matter where disaster may strike.
What we offer
IBM disaster recovery services can help protect your business in the event of a disaster. Specifically, IBM offers the following service products:
- Disaster recovery assessment
- Evaluates plans, processes, procedures, roles and responsibilities for your disaster recovery program, including backup for IBM System i™ servers and recovery analysis
- Disaster recovery planning and design
- Helps plan for disaster recovery, including program management, reporting and service level management
- Designs architecture to help improve recoverability of technologies such as IBM System z™, System i, System p™, System x™ and multivendor servers, storage and networks
- Data center recovery
- Provides access to IBM recovery centers around the world
- Uses data stored at IBM locations to rapidly recovery client environments
- Provides disaster recovery at multiple client locations
- Expedites replacement of System i and System p servers
- Network recovery
- Provides disaster recovery of client networks
- Workplace recovery
- Provides disaster recovery of client workplace to a fixed location or a virtual workplace
- Provides disaster recovery of call center to a fixed location
- Provides disaster recovery using mobile recovery centers
- Disaster recovery validation and testing
- Helps test your disaster recovery plans, including System i restore tests
- Assists you in testing your disaster recovery plans
- Provides a workshop that helps test your disaster recovery plans
What we offer
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.
Network recovery
Today's companies are more dependent on their networks for survival. With all of the functions that need to be managed, there is often less time for network continuity planning and exercising. We offer a portfolio of information recovery programs tailored to your network environment.
Physical workplace recovery
If a disaster rendered your facility unavailable, where would you recover your business operations? Where would your people go? We can provide alternative facilities to enable your central or distributed workforce to regain access to information and maintain productivity.
Recovery Express
Providing targeted, cost-effective data center recovery services for small and midsize businesses
Recovery options for IBM technology
What is the recovery time objective for your distributed system environment? Have you taken steps to decrease your recovery window? A full range of IT recovery options are available to you depending on your specific needs and budget.

