(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Technology giant IBM (www.ibm.com) announced on Friday it has opened a new data center in Izmir, Turkey, which will provide business continuity and resiliency services services.
The new BCRS data center replaces the former facility, which has been in operation since 1995.
The company teamed up with Syracuse University earlier this year to build a $12.4 million, 6,000-square-foot energy-efficient data center, which will use about half the energy of a traditional data center.
According to the company, the new data center features “advanced data center capabilities and workplace-recovery technologies designed to help companies safeguard and recover critical information and ensure uninterrupted operations.”
Adding to its more than 150 business resilience centers worldwide, this latest BCRS center offers customized business continuity services to ensure companies will be able to continue operating under the most challenging circumstances, including natural disasters.
The facility provides technology hosting services to customers so that they can store both valuable data at the secure data center and work remotely.
The Turkish-Austrian constructed building is a 13,120-square-foot, three-floor data center, which hosts nearly 300 working seats that can be extended to 500 seats.
The data center’s equipment includes storage appliances called data protection vaults and recovery software.
Since it has its own emergency power supply, the data center can operate for a minimum of 48 hours independent of an external power supply.
“IBM’s new Business Continuity and Resiliency Service Center has been designed to meet the growing needs of our customers and helps to ensure that they can continue critical operations even in the most difficult circumstances,” says Michel Charouk, country general manager at IBM Turkey.
