Do you have a known Recovery time and point objective to meet your company’s uptime requirements? Are you sure your local and cloud backups and data haven’t been encrypted from a Ransom attack?

Practising recovery scenarios makes perfect sense when determining the Recovery Point Objective (RPO), the maximum time permitted for data to be restored, which may or may not mean data loss.

SSN: You’ve argued that traditional metrics like Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) are no longer relevant during active breaches. What should security teams prioritize instead when every second counts ...

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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.

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let's delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...

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 ...

In data recovery discussions with senior IT executives, an oft-repeated refrain is about the difficulty in obtaining an accurate picture of their organizations’ ability to recover key applications and ...

All the backups in the world will do you no good if they’re not prioritized, up to date, secure, clean, accessible and recoverable in an acceptable amount of time.

Search “business contingency/disaster recovery plan” and you’re likely to experience information overload, so let’s sidestep the noise and cut to the chase. Since the terms “business continuity” and ...

In addition, the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) can be as long as four hours for Cloud PC tenants with up to 50,000 Cloud PCs in a region.