Vanta reports that developing a disaster recovery plan is crucial for organizations to minimize downtime and recover swiftly ...

Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with data protection in general and data restoration specifically. Obviously these two elements are critical for today’s data-intensive businesses ...

RPO represents the maximum data loss you can afford as a function of time. Most backups occur periodically, with each backup event being a recovery point. The RPO is a combination of the time between ...

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We recently asked for some direction desired RPO/RTO from the business. Whilst this isn't finalised one business unit has come back with an RPO/RTO for email of 0 and 1 hour respectively. Let's assume ...

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 ...