IBM is about to cut the ribbon officially opening two new state-of-the-art data centers intended to provide disaster recovery and resiliency services, one in the Raleigh, N.C. area and other in Mumbai, India.
According to Alice Williams, IBM director of strategy and portfolio for global business continuity and resiliency services, the Raleigh center just opening now is about 72,000 square feet of raised floor to accommodate a wide range of needs associated with backup and recovery with an additional 8,000 sq. ft. for purposes such as tape data storage. With high-speed connectivity available from multiple service providers as well as dark fiber line connections, the center is also designed to support the IBM SoftLayer technology approach to tasks associated with virtual machine redundancy and Big Data processing at Infiniband speeds up to 56Gbps.
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