IBM has rolled out a disaster recovery service via its SoftLayer unit using which users can recover their workloads running on Linux, Windows, or IBM’s AIX “in a matter of minutes”.
The service has been named Cloud Virtualized Server Recovery (VSR) managed service and using this service IBM’s customers will be guaranteed automated recovery of mission-critical applications, servers and cloud-based data.
One of the key selling points of the service seems to be the real-time replication of entire systems independent of the underlying hardware, applications, databases and user data. The replication will include things such as system files, the applications itself, database dependencies, and user data.
IBM’s announcement comes just a day before VMware’s announcement of its own disaster recovery service for its ESX hypervisor virtual machines.
IBM said that the VSR service will initially available through its SoftLayer datacenters. Later the service will then be expanded to include a wider set of services including business continuity and resilience services.
The big blue claimed in the video that disaster recovery and continuity services market is booming and it expects it to grow to over $32 billion by 2015. IBM cited one of its own studies to reveal that over 70 percent of CISOs globally were concerned about mobile and cloud security.
IBM also revealed that it is opening two new cloud-based resiliency centres – one each in Raleigh, N.C., and Mumbai, India. The two new centres will be part of the other 150 resiliency centers already in operation globally helping IBM customers to cut network latencies and keep data close to the point of national origin.
