ARMONK, N.Y. and BANGALORE, India, Oct.
27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today
announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sanovi
Technologies, a privately held company that provides hybrid cloud
recovery, cloud migration and business continuity software for
enterprise data centers and cloud infrastructure. Adding these
capabilities along with advanced analytics will better enable IBM
to bolster its Software Defined Resiliency strategy and delivery of
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services for clients
undergoing digital and hybrid cloud transformation.
With Sanovi's software, IBM will further empower clients to
redefine their disaster recovery strategy in the face of
unprecedented industry change. The addition of Sanovi's
orchestration technology to IBM's existing resiliency portfolio
offers a solution that helps simplify and automate the disaster
recovery process, helps to manage recovery workflows, and can help
to reduce recovery time, operating costs, and disaster recovery
drill testing time. From a central dashboard, resiliency
professionals can automate and monitor recovery point and time
objectives in their disaster recovery environments by application,
server, or data base to work towards business driven recovery
outcomes. We feel that this will be a crucial differentiator for
clients making decisions on their risk posture, as many still use
paper based exercises or sample tests based on estimations that
potentially mischaracterize actual recovery time and recovery point
objectives of their applications.
"Our clients are embracing a digitized world where applications
need to be 'always-on,'" said Martin
Jetter, Senior Vice President, Global Technology Services,
IBM. "As a cloud-native company, Sanovi will strengthen our
resiliency portfolio to manage the broad range of applications,
data, and IT systems of our clients balancing digital and hybrid
cloud transformation with increased regulatory compliance."
Upon close, which is expected by the end of 2016, IBM plans to
integrate the Sanovi capabilities into the IBM Global Technology
Services unit. IBM Resiliency Services is continuously evolving to
learn, anticipate and confront the growing range of natural and
man-made risks surrounding businesses today and was named a Leader
for the second consecutive year in Gartner's June 2016 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as
a Service. Moving forward, IBM envisions leveraging Watson
Analytics to expand Sanovi's Disaster Recovery Management (DRM)
capabilities and enable organizations to move from business
continuity planning to more proactive resiliency programs that help
anticipate potential failures before they happen.
"IBM's technology leadership in hybrid cloud infrastructure and
resiliency services makes it a clear choice to bring end-to-end
services to our customers and transformational value to IBM's
existing client base," said Chandra Sekhar Pulamarasetti,
Co-Founder & CEO of Sanovi. "Together, we will provide
next-generation resiliency solutions for robust hybrid cloud
deployments across the globe."
In addition to being available as part of a managed resiliency
service, IBM plans to make Sanovi DRM available as a stand-alone
software license for partners and customers looking to optimize
in-house and vendor run resiliency programs.
Today, IBM operates over 300 global delivery data centers and 46
IBM Cloud Data Centers across 68 countries to help companies
worldwide maintain continuous business operations, protect their
data, and improve overall resiliency for any size organization.
Founded in 2003, Sanovi is headquartered in Bangalore, India, and operates in the United States, the Middle East, and Asia. Financial details of the deal were not
disclosed.
For more information on IBM Resiliency Services, visit
http://ibm.co/1cqLDOz.
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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.
About Sanovi Technologies
Gartner Cool Vendor Sanovi Technologies provides Cloud migration,
business continuity and IT recovery solutions using its innovative
Application Defined Continuity (ADC) technology for workloads
across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. Sanovi has over
350 customers, including Fortune 500 companies, service providers
and multi-billion dollar enterprises across vertical industries.
Gartner's 2015 Hype Cycle report on BCP/DR calls out Sanovi's
software as the recovery management solution for heterogeneous
platforms. Sanovi is a Red Herring Global 100 award 2013 winner.
Sanovi's offerings include enterprise DRM and cloud continuity
software products. For more on Sanovi solutions, please visit
www.sanovi.com.
Media Contacts
Conor Golden
IBM Media Relations
cgolden@us.ibm.com
212-671-9422
Sowmya Ramachandran
IBM Media Relations – India
sowramac@in.ibm.com
91-98451-81220
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