Establish a downtime threshold When building a disaster-recovery plan, the first objective should be to decide the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). The RPO dictates ...

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 ...

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

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 ...

The recovery of data and critical applications—from granular recovery of an email through full site restoration—is still a risky proposition for most organizations. That’s because all too often data ...

Last week’s column (see: “The data recovery expectations gap”) discussed the gap that often exists between end users and IT infrastructure, and suggested the need to distinguish between operational ...

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

DRaaS now offers instant Recovery Time Objective (RTO) restarts from Datrium backups on Amazon S3—the lowest RTO with VMware Cloud of any Amazon S3-based DR system. Additionally, a new feature, DRaaS ...

Public cloud storage has lots of use cases where its agility, scale and commercial flexibility make it an attractive proposition. One such use case is disaster recovery (DR), and in this article we ...

The Disaster Recovery Standard provides information for critical process and function owners and support personnel about what they should do to prepare for a disaster to ensure that RIT as a whole can ...