IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery

IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery is a fully managed cloud service that provides a viable way to recover critical systems and data.

Your production servers, whether in traditional or virtual IT environments, will be backed up to a security-rich, hardened data center utilizing IBM multitenant cloud architecture and available for recovery if a disaster or other outage renders your IT facilities inoperable. The service provides more flexibility and shorter recovery times than traditional disaster recovery solutions. By incorporating automation and cloud technologies, this service helps reduce the complexity associated with recovering to unlike hardware and helps improve reliability.

As a fully managed service IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery utilizes a subscription model that provides predictable costs. It is a service for operational and outage recovery that includes a security web portal for self-management and the flexibility to recover without travelling to a recovery site. It is available on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and AIX and provides data protection options from backup tapes, if longer recovery times are acceptable, to companion storage replication that can help shorten the time to recovery.

IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery
offers the following three capabilities:

• IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery – disaster and test virtual machine: A cost-effective remote cloud recovery infrastructure for servers
• IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery – always available virtual machine: A continuously available infrastructure for servers requiring near zero recovery-time-objective and recovery-point-objective
• IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery – imported media virtual machine: Importing, at the time of a disaster, server images and data from tape or network attached storage to a cloud recovery infrastructure

Planned availability date

• January 31, 2012