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 ...

Ever spend gobs of time and money and effort to achieve a business goal, only to find out that you messed up something else in the process? Man, I hate that. The problem is, I see companies do it all ...

RPO and RTO – recovery point objective and recovery time objective – are vital metrics when developing disaster recovery (DR) plans and strategy. They are fundamental to figuring out the details of ...

The Business Continuity Institute defines the purpose of business continuity management as identifying "potential impacts that threaten an organization and provid[ing] a framework for building ...

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), ...

The Disaster Recovery Standard provides information for critical process and function owners and support personnel about what they should do to prepare for a disaster to ensure that RIT as a whole can ...

As noted in the first article in this series, IT disaster recovery (DR) strategies and procedures help organisations protect their investments in IT systems and infrastructures. The essential mission ...

Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with data protection in general and data restoration specifically. Obviously these two elements are critical for today’s data-intensive businesses ...