IBM invests $300 million in C2CD backup and disaster recovery services | | 2008-08-23 | | | IBM is to invest $300 million in 13 new Business Resilience data centres around the world to provide a D2CD (disk-to-cloud-disk) back-up and disaster recovery platform for customers worldwide.Resilience data centres are planned for: Tokyo, Japan; Paris, France; London, UK; Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, China; Izmir, Turkey; Warsaw, Poland; Milan, Italy; Metro Park, New Jersey, US; Cologne, Germany; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Mumbai, India; South Africa; and Brussels, Belgium.Customers will have a Service Delivery Platform in their data centres which automatically backs up data to a fully configured, rack-mounted storage appliance (known as a vault) in an offsite IBM Business Resilience data centre. They will be able to store and retrieve backed up information from their vault for purposes of file restoration, general business continuance, compliance audits and disaster recovery. Data can be restored to the originating site or an alternate one. IBM claim full restoration can be achieved in two to six hours.The development follows IBM’s acquisition of online backup specialists Arsenal Digital Solutions in December 2007. Arsenal’s data protection technology has now been integrated with IBM’s rack-mounted storage appliances, each of which can store multiple terabytes. IBM is calling its new backup to cloud-disk offering IBM Information Protection Services. The combination of the IBM storage appliances with Arsenal’s software has been named a Data Protection Vault.The service will be offered on a pay-as-you-go subscription basis. | |
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