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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With heightened public awareness of data breaches, ransomware and identity theft, organizations should be aggressively re-examining their incident response and business continuity plans in order to ...

Disaster recovery (DR) is one of the most critical insurance policies in which a business can invest. A high-quality disaster recovery strategy can be the difference between a minor speed bump and a ...

We are more connected than ever in this digital era, and those connections are faster and increasingly more immediate. Advanced technologies are accelerating incredible achievements for businesses and ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...