Lava cherry – picks IBM cloud to ensure uninterrupted business operations
Lava International Ltd (Lava), a leading Indian mobile handset company, has cherry – picked IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery (VSR) services, a cloud-based disaster recovery solution, to ensure continuous business operations, manage costs and improve overall resiliency.
Instituted in 2009, Lava quickly has emerged as a dominant player in the mobile handset market in India, growing its revenue by 15 percent a month to become one of the top three Indian brands over a period of just three years.
At the moment, Lava offers a wide product portfolio that encompasses tablets, feature phones and smart phones having various models in bar and touch form factor at multiple price points to suit all categories of patrons
IBM’s SmartCloud VSR services makes available world-class automation and cloud tools to be able to assist businesses facilitate quicker recovery time and increase reliability of their server recovery. Lava now has a back up option to support its more than 2000 internal and external users, as well as top retailers and distributors in India.
Lava from its barrio has signed a 10-year deal to be able to avail cloud services out of IBM’s Bangalore data center. IBM will also perform 24/7 monitoring and management through automation of the hosted infrastructure.
