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IBM's supercomputing resources to help find vaccines for COVID-19

IBM constantly test and fine-tune business continuity readiness, in India and across the world, planning for workforce management.

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IBM is putting its massive supercomputing resources to work to help find treatments or vaccines for the COVID-19 virus.

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This is following the Indian Prime Minister calling for a 21-day lockdown, starting March 25, 2020, and later, Lalit Rout of Reliance Capital speaking about focusing on BCP to combat Covid-19.

Lingraju Sawkar, General Manager, Global Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia, said: "IBM sustains the digital and IT operations of the world's most critical organizations, from banks and airlines to telcos, healthcare providers and government agencies. All of them are cruvcial, and all of them have business-critical systems that IBM helps run.

"We constantly test and fine-tune our business continuity readiness, in India and across the world, with planning for workforce management and the protection of important IT systems. With many states mandating work from home, we are also helping our clients to enable their employees with remote capability offerings, upgrading their networks while enabling collaborative technologies to ensure productivity.

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"As you may be aware, IBM is putting its massive supercomputing resources to work to help find treatments or vaccines for the COVID-19 virus. IBM is leading a consortium of companies and public high-performance computing leaders like the United States, and we have pulled together an unprecedented amount of supercomputing power for this initiative.

"We've also led a worldwide effort (known as "Call for Code") to get independent developers working on solving smaller community problems that deal with management of the crisis, all built on open standards with applications that will be put in use for free by first responders and health authorities. We believe this will be the largest developer project of its kind in the world.

"You may not know this, but IBM operates the largest corporate network in the world, with 22,000 wireless access points and 1,500 firewalls. In recent days, we have shifted to support nearly all IBMers working remotely, and we have done that seamlessly.

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"IBM can do this because we’ve invested heavily in the past few years -- in India, and globally -- in our infrastructure and remote access capabilities, with focus on security, ease of use, and business continuity. These engineering decisions have proven to be vital for us. That’s why some clients include us as part of their own crisis teams.

"We are seeing other large corporations and institutions struggle with these issues and we are doing all we can to help them manage on a remote basis. We have unique expertise to help them, because IBM knows how to manage a global distributed workforce at scale. It’s how we run the most important systems in the world, and how we run our own.

"It is all a powerful reminder, to me, of IBM's essential role in the world and our unwavering commitment to our clients' success."

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