It can be business as usual, come natural calamities or political violence. An earthquake, a flood or a terrorist attack can throw businesses out of gear for days. No longer, if you have secured a place at IBM?s Work Area Recovery Centre, coming up in Navi Mumbai.
Located at the IT Park in Vashi, the recovery centre will have a seating capacity of 2,500, extendable to 3,500 under constrains. It will cater to Mumbai, Pune, Surat and Nashik. IBM has 154 such centres across 55 countries.
The Vashi unit will be armed with a data centre and 24/7 technical and non-technical staffing. It offers options for dedicated or shared recovery workspace, so that people can turn up to the centre and resume work in the event of a work disruption at their locations. On the flip side, the centre will be helpless if the remote application becomes inaccessible from damage to physical infrastructure.
IBM is targeting companies with high operational sensitivity?like finance, insurance, BPO and banking?-for the centre. Nipun Mehrotra, vice-president and general manager, global technology services, IBM India/ South Asia, says, ?India being a growing economy, our international customers around the world felt a need of such a recovery centre in India too, and therefore, it was a strategic decision for us to come up in Navi Mumbai.?
?We will syndicate in such a fashion that we have companies spread across Mumbai, so that when a calamity hits a particular area, we are not stuck,? Mehrotra pointed out.