In today’s digital-first world, data protection is not optional — it’s mission critical. The cost of downtime and data loss continues to escalate, with research showing:
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The average cost of downtime for large organizations has climbed as high as $9,000 per minute¹.
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The average cost of a data breach surged to USD 4.88 million in 2024, up from USD 4.45 million the previous year².
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Among organizations that experienced a breach, more than three-quarters took over 100 days to fully recover².
The message is clear: safeguarding workloads, ensuring recoverability, and maintaining business continuity are now fundamental requirements for enterprises of every size.
Why Business Continuity is Critical
Business continuity is more than just risk mitigation — it is a compliance requirement, a revenue safeguard, and a brand protection strategy. Organizations need to:
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Prevent data loss caused by corruption, human error, or infrastructure failure.
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Recover data, files, and infrastructure quickly to resume operations.
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Maintain competitiveness and reputation in the face of disruptions.
Introducing IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery
IBM Cloud offers a comprehensive portfolio of managed backup services to help enterprises securely protect workloads and applications running on IBM Cloud. It offers
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Infrastructure backups, such as
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Application Backup for Platforms such as VPC VSI, VMware, with workloads such as File/system, MS-SQL, SAP HANA etc.)
Our mission is simple:
Deliver a secure, scalable, and unified IBM Cloud Managed Backup and Restore as a Service for diverse platforms and workloads — all accessible through a single control plane.
With IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery, customers gain:
Key Features
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Single pane of glass for infrastructure and application-level backups (Currently supports application level backups; infrastructure backup coming soon)
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Policy-driven management with automated scheduling
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Business-level dashboards for observability, monitoring, and compliance (Coming soon)
Why IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery Stands Out
This service is designed to meet the evolving needs of modern enterprises:
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Enterprise-grade protection with encrypted, policy-driven backups (in transit and at rest).
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Seamless business continuity with rapid recovery and geo-redundant storage.
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Scalability & cost efficiency through a pay-as-you-go model.
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Deep integration across the IBM Cloud ecosystem — supporting VMs, databases, containers, and hybrid environments.
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Zero Trust security foundation with immutability, isolation, and ransomware protection.
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Simplicity & agility via self-service workflows and APIs.
This is not just backup. It’s a strategic enabler for resilience, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Critical Use Cases
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Regulatory Compliance & Audit Readiness: Meet stringent requirements (e.g., SOC2, FS Cloud, DORA) with auditable backup/restore logs.
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Hybrid & Multi-cloud Protection: Centralized visibility across IBM Cloud, on-prem, and other public clouds.
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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery: Rapid failover and recovery for mission-critical workloads.
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Application & Database Protection: Automated, point-in-time recovery for apps, VMs, and transactional databases.
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Cybersecurity & Ransomware Protection: Immutable, air-gapped backups ensure quick restoration of clean data.
Our Current Backup capability includes Infrastructure Backup -
What’s New
Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of managed solution purpose-built for application-level protection.
This new capability ensures application-level recoverability, bringing resilience closer to the workloads that matter most.
What’s Coming Next
We’re committed to continuous innovation. Future roadmap capabilities will further strengthen hybrid resiliency, expand workload support, and introduce advanced policy automation. Stay tuned for more updates as we enhance the IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery.
Final Word
The IBM Cloud Agent-based Backup and Recovery empowers enterprises to safeguard data, maintain compliance, and ensure business continuity across complex hybrid environments — with the simplicity and security of IBM Cloud.
With downtime costing millions and threats becoming more sophisticated, it’s time to move beyond traditional backup.
IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery is your strategic partner in building resilience for the future.
¹Source: [Industry estimates on downtime costs]
²Source: [IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024]