Bank of Beirut and IBM have completed implementation of a five-year agreement to provide a comprehensive recovery solution for the Bank’s London subsidiary. IBM has said that the solution would enable the bank to recover its data, in the event of any disaster – reported AME Info.
IBM added that the solution also ensures that the bank meets its regulatory requirements and gains confidence in its ability to recover its London operations. The solution delivers security and help address stringent standards for data protection, business and systems continuity, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance.
Martin Osborne, manager of administration at Bank of Beirut, said: We faced a challenge every time we carried out a recovery test, having to build our servers from scratch, including loading and configuring the operating system and restoring the data. This created a strain on our IT resources and we realised that we needed a more consistent and reliable data backup and recovery solution to ensure that we could guarantee the bank’s capability to provide increased resiliency and business recovery at times of need.’
Tosca Colangeli, director of IBM UKI Business Continuity & Resiliency Services, said: IBM has implemented an Information Protection Service to back up selected data on Bank of Beirut (UK) Ltd’s production servers locally then replicate to the secure data repository. The solution includes new servers permanently powered on in the recovery centre that have backup operating systems already loaded and are ready to receive their data in case of a test or a disaster.
