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 ...

Agencies need to improve their recovery time objectives for applications, data sets and systems to ensure they continue to operate in the face of increased threats to their IT environments. Recovery ...

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 ...

Data is one of the most important assets for many organizations. A significant level of care should be given to prevent data security incidents. However, despite the best plans and intentions, both ...

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 ...

Neglecting proper data recovery planning is increasing risk for organisations across Africa – particularly small and medium-sized businesses. So says Mark Govender, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam, ...

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 ...