ARMONK, N.Y., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned IBM as a
Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a
Service (DRaaS) for the third consecutive year. And this year, IBM
was once again positioned as one of the highest in ability to
execute and the furthest in completeness of vision.
IBM continues to offer one of the most comprehensive sets of
related professional and managed services in the industry, and it
enhanced its long-standing history in disaster recovery with its
2016 purchase of Sanovi Technologies to complement its IT and
applications resiliency orchestration capabilities. IBM also
continues to integrate IBM Watson into its resiliency services
offerings to enhance disaster avoidance.
"We believe IBM's recognition in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for
Disaster Recovery as a Service report speaks to the value,
consistency and reliability our clients find in our resiliency
services across the globe, as we work to innovate and deliver for
them every day," said Laurence
Guihard-Joly, General Manager, IBM Resiliency Services.
"Beyond natural disasters and other outages, the increasing
number of cyberattacks and other threats today requires the most
advanced and most proactive set of solutions possible so our
clients can combat those threats and focus on differentiating in
the era of 'always-on' expectations."
IBM Resiliency Services offers an innovative portfolio of
resiliency and business continuity solutions and services with
expanded public cloud options to enable clients with greater
flexibility and agility in managing their backup and disaster
recovery workloads. Today, IBM operates over 300 global delivery
data centers across 54 countries to help companies worldwide
maintain continuous business operations and improve overall
resiliency for any size organization.
To view the full report, and learn more about IBM Resiliency
Services, please visit https://ibm.co/2tRWivz.
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About IBM Global Technology Services
IBM Global
Technology Services offers end-to-end IT consulting and business
services supported by an unparalleled global delivery network that
is transforming its business to lead in an era of Cognitive and
Cloud. As a cloud services integrator, GTS is managing the services
and underlying infrastructure in an integrated and unified way. It
is modernizing clients' IT environments to help them meet the
increasingly complex customer demands. GTS provides clients with
innovative technology solutions that help them to improve their
business processes and in turn, profitability.
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