IBM and Quality Technology Services join hands in providing disaster recovery solutions

IBM and Quality Technology Services are prepared to jointly offer disaster recovery services that are intended to fulfill customers’ business continuity requirements.

The Disaster Recovery ON-Demand and DR High Availability services work to maintain a network’s availability for QTS’ managed hosting clients during server disruptions, QTS said Tuesday.

The DR On-Demand service uses distributed offline servers to replicate images of the customers’ virtual environments.

Natural Disaster

The DR High Availability feature works to clone the data of physical and virtual servers to provide clients access to updated information, applications and operation systems.

With QTS’ disaster recovery services, we were able to easily customize our client’s recovery solution according to their business needs and specific recovery requirements  said Steve, business executive of private cloud-delivery partner services at IBM Global Technology Services.

Disaster recovery plans and controls are more important for the operation of a business organization in the event of natural calamities like earthquake, floods, hurricanes or man made disasters like electrical fire, negligence, mishandling of systems, failure of IT hardware infrastructure etc. For any medium to large business, data is considered as an invaluable asset and so business houses are investing in disaster recovery and control to resume business operations in the wake of any disaster.

Disaster Recovery for Business Organizations

Natural disaster or human made disaster happens seldom. A business organization cannot survive in such situations, if appropriate disaster recovery plans are in place. Disaster recovery is the process involving policies and procedures which help for recovery and continuation of the business infrastructure in crucial times.

Disaster recovery is a concept developed in 1970s when computer systems are being used in business organizations. In 1980 to 1990s disaster recovery industry found rapid growth.

Disasters can be classified in to two types. First one is natural like floods, hurricanes, earthquakes which are beyond human control. The second one is man made disasters which are like infrastructure failure, terrorism, mishandling, gross negligence, fire in electrical wiring of office building etc

Natural Disaster aftermath

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Different types of control measures are available nowadays to eliminate or reduce the threats to business organizations in the event of any disaster. Disaster recovery planning includes business continuity planning which involves methods for resumption of data, applications, communications etc.

Preventive measures, detective measures and corrective measures are used in IT disaster recovery control process.

Nowadays cloud storage and cloud computing are becoming popular. Now companies use cloud technologies with automatic daily testing and backup. This gives 100% recovery and 100% customer satisfaction.

Earlier data backups were made in magnetic tapes and stored in off-site at regular intervals, replication of data to an off-store location, hybrid cloud solutions which replicates both on-ste and off-site data and applications. Some use local mirrors of systems and use disk protection method like RAID.