Business data backup and recovery is more challenging today. Your business data is growing exponentially. It's distributed across servers, desktops and laptops located around town or around the world. Regulations are complex. Business disruptions are costly. You need a cost-effective data backup and recovery solution that can make your critical business data available anytime, anywhere.

IBM SmartCloud Managed Backup services provides end-to-end, cloud-based managed services to help you protect your business data, regardless of where it's stored. Our solution helps:

• Reduce total cost of ownership with a cloud-based data backup infrastructure
• Enable security-rich protection of critical data on-site or off-site for increased availability
• Ease management of various industry regulation requirements

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  Pay-as-you-use pricing model so you can more easily predict operating expenses [ more details ]

  With convenient monthly billing, our pricing model can also scale rapidly to meet your changing business needs. And, you only pay for what you back up, so you gain 100 percent utilization of your backup resources. [ hide ]

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  No long-term architectural investments to help reduce total cost of ownership [ more details ]

  With our end-to-end backup service, you virtually eliminate up-front capital investments for your own software and hardware infrastructure for data backup. You can also reduce costs related to the creation, management and off-site shipping of backup tapes. [ hide ]

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  High levels of performance and reliability to help ensure data availability [ more details ]

  Our fault-tolerant, redundant infrastructure is designed to deliver around-the-clock availability of critical business data. We consistently deliver an overall recovery success rate of 99 percent.* This success is significantly higher than the 60 to 85 percent recovery rates that our clients reported with their in-house solutions. [ hide ]

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  Security-rich data backup solution to help you control
  risk [ more details ]

  Our data centers are enabled by the latest technologies, including advanced encryption and data de-duplication practices, to help you protect your data and better control business and operational risks. We also operate to a set of standard procedures and practices governed by the IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) to help ensure that data is managed appropriately. [ hide ]

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  Scalability and automation to handle growth [ more details ]

  Our comprehensive, cross-platform data backup solutions incorporate service enhancements and daily monitoring, so you can know when you need to scale up or down to meet changing business requirements. [ hide ]

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  Flexibility to meet changing business needs with choices for delivery models and locations [ more details ]

  Choose the solution that best meets your needs. We offer public, private or hybrid cloud environments, as well as on-site or off-site data centers, at either your site or at one of our 154 global resiliency centers in 55 countries. We also support a variety of operating systems and application environments. [ hide ]

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  Comprehensive reporting capability to help save time and manage compliance [ more details ]

  Your IT staff can work more efficiently using the self-monitoring capabilities offered through our portals and dashboards, including:

  • Web-based, multilingual reporting
  • Provisioning and support
  • Graphical or tabular reports
  • Alert notifications
  • Monthly reporting

  With visibility into service levels, management details and analytics, your IT staff can more quickly access and recover your business environment, with minimal disruption to your business. They can also use the reporting to manage compliance with regulatory requirements. [ hide ]

  ^{* Based on IBM client data.}