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 ...

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 ...

Establish a downtime threshold When building a disaster-recovery plan, the first objective should be to decide the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). The RPO dictates ...

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 ...

You may not have given much thought to how you backup your data. Since it is World Backup Day, it's time for you to give it some consideration. In terms of backup, many organizations default 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 ...

Protecting corporate data has always been a high priority for IT organizations. Years ago, customers had one choice to protect their data — backing up disk volumes to tape. Data protection ...

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...