Information protection services

Your information is as unique as your business—and so are your needs for information protection. IBM Information Protection Services can help you implement a plan based on your priorities for backup, retention and retrieval, so you can have virtually anywhere, anytime access to information in the extended enterprise.

Delivering high levels of security and availability, this suite of services can help address stringent standards for data protection, business and systems continuity, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance. Using pay-as-you-use pricing, it provides robust protection across data centers, branch offices and remote laptops.

Given the severe consequences of losing business-critical data, information protection should be a part of any comprehensive business resilience strategy. With information protection services, your data is backed up more effectively, and is recoverable in a cost-efficient way. Our patent-pending automated management engine reduces human error in operational recovery, and you benefit from 24x7x365 monitoring and support. Your internal IT departments are freed up to focus on more strategic business initiatives. And most importantly, your efficiency and success rate for data backup and restoration are improved.

IBM is a trusted leader in information protection. We:

• Protected more than 20 petabytes throughout 60 data centers in 12 countries on 5 continents in 2007.
• Have nearly a decade of experience and innovation in delivering the industry's most comprehensive data protection services.
• Protect information for more than 3,400 clients globally.

Let us help you select and implement the best data protection plan to meet your specific business needs.

What we offer:

• IBM Information Protection Services – remote data protection automatically backs up data from your servers, PCs and laptops, anywhere they are located, to our security-rich data centers via your existing network.
• IBM Information Protection Services – onsite data protection provides hosted backup and recovery services for your mission-critical data at our offsite data centers, along with comprehensive management.
• IBM Information Protection Services – remote data protection express is an automatic, security-rich and offsite data backup and recovery service for small-scale remote Windows servers and PCs.
• IBM Information Protection Services – data retention and archival – email management express enables the continuous availability of e-mail systems and supports e-mail archiving policy management capabilities for e-discovery, storage management and disaster recovery.