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In the case of a disaster, a physical recovery approach may significantly increase the risk of data loss while significantly escalating recovery time as well. The IBM SmartCloud VSR solution as Ganesh Margabandhu, GM, Global Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia says, exploits advanced tools to help enterprises improve business reliability with remote server recovery and flexibility.
Why the cloud-based disaster recovery solution
IBM’s SmartCloud services called VSR provide automation and cloud tools to help businesses facilitate quicker recovery time and increase reliability of their server recovery. Lava now has a back up option to support its more than 2000 internal and external users, including top retailers and distributors inIndia.
Lava has signed a ten-year deal to avail cloud services out of IBM'sBangaloredata center. IBM will also perform 24/7 monitoring and management through automation of the hosted infrastructure.
Lava can gain 100 percent functionality within just an hour, a process that is managed remotely
“The need for uninterrupted business operations has become crucial for us to ensure enhanced customer engagement and protect critical business data,” said Virendra Kumar Rai, Vice President and Head of IT, Lava.
Lava selected IBM due to its proven ability to reduce recovery time by up to 40 percent, and for reliability, scalability.
“IBM’s proven expertise in cloud-based virtual recovery provides us a highly resilient infrastructure that will help us mitigate downtime risks and ultimately ensure that we are able to meet the around-the-clock needs of our customers.”
Lava can re-gain 100% functionality in just an hour
Lava is now able to plan for the wide range of issues that could affect operations. In the event of unexpected downtime, Lava can gain 100 percent functionality within just an hour, a process that is managed remotely. With competing offering this process would have taken 8-12 hours, greatly impacting the ability to meet the around-the-clock needs of customers.
IBM also ensures that Lava can not only provision recovery resources within minutes, but also avoid errors of manual operations. As a result it ensures that Lava can continue its business operations without any disruption to customer service.
This ensures Lava provision recovery resources within minutes, and also avoid errors of manual operations
IBM SmartCloud VSR services help speed server recovery time and increases reliability of server recovery by leveraging world class automation and cloud tools. It minimizes the risk of failure due to the installation of disparate hardware and provides remote server access tools to help reduce cost and time as well as the inconvenience of travelling to the recovery site.
“It is important for organizations to have a strategic approach to business continuity and resiliency and the answer today is in the cloud,” said Ganesh Margabandhu, General Manager, Global Technology Services, IBM India /South Asia.
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