The recovery of data and critical applications—from granular recovery of an email through full site restoration—is still a risky proposition for most organizations. That’s because all too often data ...

The recovery point objective (RPO) and the recovery time objective (RTO) are two very specific parameters that are closely associated with recovery. The RTO is how long you can basically go without a ...

Everyone agrees that backups should be sent off site, but not everyone agrees on how that should be accomplished. The decision about which method to use will affect your recovery-time objective (RTO), ...

RPO represents the maximum data loss you can afford as a function of time. Most backups occur periodically, with each backup event being a recovery point. The RPO is a combination of the time between ...

Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations. When evaluating the ...

IT has become critical to the operation of almost every company that offers goods and services to businesses and consumers. We all depend on email to communicate, collaboration software (such as ...

Some people view IT disaster recovery (DR) plans solely as insurance for events that will likely never happen. However, IT-DR can extend beyond declaration and execution during “disaster” events to be ...