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Continuity Service Level Protection
Today's businesses have to support global operations, meet demanding
compliance requirements and manage ever-growing data volumes. Companies of
all sizes now require high data availability and quick recovery from
downtime in order to stay competitive. Unplanned downtime or disruptions can
have significant consequences, such as:
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The erosion of customer loyalty.
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Damage to brand or company reputation.
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Loss of revenue due to disruption of business processes.
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Loss of critical data.
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Reduced productivity of employees and critical resources.
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Compliance failures and other legal consequences.
To address these growing needs for data and storage protection, IBM has
developed a comprehensive solution that can help companies achieve higher
levels of data and storage availability, and to recover more quickly after a
disruptive event. IBM's business continuity service level protection
solution can help companies align storage management technologies and
processes to business requirements, with offerings that range from
traditional backup and restore technologies to high-performance backup and
restore capabilities for mission-critical applications. Delivered through
IBM Tivoli® software and IBM Global Technology Services, this solution can
be tailored to the unique needs of each environment.
IBM's Business Continuity Service Level Protection solution can help you:
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Improve your business continuity posture by applying service level
management concepts to your data protection needs.
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Align storage management technologies and processes more closely to
business requirements, enabling prioritized recovery responses and
better use of resources.
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Enable your company to achieve higher levels of data and storage
availability, and to recover more quickly after a disruptive event.
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Combine industry-leading business continuity technologies and
implementation services to provide a solution that meets your
organization's business needs.
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Build a foundation for continuous improvement, where performance can
be accurately measured against established recovery objectives.
Mitigating disruption through storage service levels
Service level management is a proven method to help ensure that IT
organizations consistently meet or exceed business requirements for
performance and availability. When applied to the discipline of managing
data and storage, service level management is an effective approach to help
companies mitigate the impact disruptions can have on data availability.
Using IBM's business continuity service level protection solution, you
can more effectively apply service level concepts to your data protection
strategy-and improve your business continuity posture. The solution supports
service level protection processes throughout the discover, align, assign,
and protect phases shown below:
Applying service level protection to your storage infrastructure can
improve your business continuity posture by addressing key concerns
throughout the process.
The IBM technologies and implementation services available through the
business continuity service level protection solution enable companies to
execute this process in a continuous loop: as new data assets are introduced
that need to be protected, as data recovery priorities change, and as
opportunities for improvement are identified.
Service level protection-tailored to your needs
IBM recognizes that different companies have different recovery goals, and
that different applications or services within each company have different
recovery requirements. Service level protection is not a "one size fits all"
solution. That's why IBM has developed a modular solution approach-three
distinct but integrated offerings to address a wide range of business
continuity requirements, from traditional backup and restore technologies
that can restore within hours or days, to next-generation data protection
solutions that can restore access to any data within minutes, to
high-availability technologies that can restore within compressed
timeframes. The integrated nature of these offerings allows customers to
build on their successes as they evolve their service level protection
strategies:
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Storage infrastructure - Storage infrastructure service level
protection focuses on the recovery of physical servers and storage
devices. This simple and straightforward approach relies on traditional
backup and restore technologies as well as bare machine recovery to
deliver recovery timeframes that range from days to hours.
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Application aware storage - Application aware storage service level
protection builds on the capabilities of storage infrastructure, adding
the concept of application awareness to the solution. By leveraging
application discovery and block-level continuous data protection
technologies, companies can link service level agreements (SLAs) to key
applications, better aligning IT to the needs of the business. This
offering can deliver faster recovery timeframes for strategic
applications, with technologies that can backup and recover applications
without having to interrupt their availability.
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High-availability storage - High-availability storage service level
protection addresses the classes of mission-critical applications that
demand high availability. This solution builds on the capabilities of
storage infrastructure and application aware storage, adding
technologies for replication and virtualization. Depending on the
application environment, this offering can deliver recovery within
minutes, helping companies maintain service levels for applications that
truly run the business.
Turn to IBM for solutions that help you plan for inevitable business
disruptions-and help reduce the impact of those disruptions on your critical
business processes. IBM provides comprehensive, integrated solutions that
deliver rapid time to value, with the flexibility to change when business
requirements change.
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