IBM is investing $300m (£150m) on customer
disaster recovery centres that use cloud computing
technology.
The 13 centres will allow businesses to
store information for quick retrieval in case their computer
systems are destroyed in a disaster.
IBM is building the recovery sites in ten countries, including
China, Japan, Turkey, Poland, France and the US.
IBM's technology
encrypts data on customer computers and automatically sends it
to IBM's cloud computing centres over the internet.
If a customer has a disaster, lost data can be retrieved and
restored via the web in two to six hours, said IBM.
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