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 ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

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 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 ...

Last week’s column (see: “The data recovery expectations gap”) discussed the gap that often exists between end users and IT infrastructure, and suggested the need to distinguish between operational ...

The recovery time objective (RTO) for a server, application, or system is often considered the holy grail by IT personnel. After all, this is the absolute drop dead time when things need to be up and ...

JetStream DR provides a software foundation for real-time replication to a ready failover environment for immediate recovery and resumed operations. Unlike traditional backup offerings that rely on ...

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 ...

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 ...

They're the first questions you might be asked in the heat of a disaster, DDoS, or ransomware attack: How soon before we're back up? How good are our backups? Have the wrong answer to those questions, ...