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 ...

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 ...

When you write a service-level agreement with one of the groups in your company, how do you make sure that the value they place on the data they leave under your control actually corresponds to 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 ...

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 ...

Put simply, DR is the safety net that catches your business when HA fails. DR focuses on data backup and replication, recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), failover to ...

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.