Determining how often to back up critical data, applications and systems depends on how you want recovery to run. Generally speaking, there are two guiding disaster recovery objectives to consider ...

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 ...

Recovery level objective is a metric that defines the minimum resources an organization needs in the aftermath of a disruptive event. Resources required to recover and resume business operations to an ...

For example.A business partner asks how many days it will take to recover if operations stop. Although the BCP contains a recovery time objective, you are unsure if you should answer with that figure ...

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 ...

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 ...

Backups alone do not establish cyber resilience; organizations need to prove that restores work under realistic conditions and within required recovery times. Recovery priorities should be based on ...

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 ...

For years, Amazon has made it possible to copy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), either within a region or across regions. These AMI copy operations are often a key step in disaster recovery operations.