Virtualisation And Business Resilience Explored

The service, she went on to say, offers flexible delivery models, including three standard cloud-based offerings, dedicated infrastructure, and customer premise solutions, while helping to streamline data backup and recovery, and reduce unauthorized access. 

Through key technology and business partnerships with a number of third-party vendors, IBM says it is helping clients address PC replacement dilemmas - and deliver resilience plus reliability for critical information - all at competitive subscription service pricing. 

And it's this subscription approach to cloud-based services that makes them so highly attractive to those enterprises looking to move to a virtualized environment, but with higher levels of systems resilience, as well as the ability to reduce the risk of systems downtime. 

Downtime is a fact of life in any enterprise's IT resources experience, but using virtualization and cloud resources in tandem can go a long way to ensuring an organisation's IT systems are as robust as possible - and still remain on a sensible budget.