How’s Your User Experience for Your Disaster Recovery?
It may sound strange to talk about “touchy-feely” stuff like user experience in the context of IT disaster recovery. After all, the priority is on getting systems up and running again within recovery time and recovery point objectives, rather than sitting around in focus groups discussing feelings and opinions.
The Rise and Rise of the Recovery Consistency Objective
Timing, as comedians say, is everything. It’s true if you’re on stage entertaining an audience.
Have You Met the Recovery Consistency Objective?
Which disaster recovery measurements do you really need? The answer is the ones that are effective in helping you to plan and execute good DR. So your choice will naturally depend on your IT operations. The two ‘classics’ of the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) are so fundamental that they apply […]
Continuous Data Replication – Is This ‘Goodbye’ to Your RPO?
Traditional data backup happens once every so often – once an hour, once a day, once a week, for example, depending on the recovery requirements associated with the data. It’s typically the recovery point objective or RPO that determines the frequency of the backup. If you cannot afford to lose more than the last 30 […]
What type of Business Continuity Recovery Site do you need?
The Recovery site is sometimes also referred to as the Alternate Site, Standby Site or Fallback Site.
Business Continuity Terminology – What’s the difference between MTO, RTO and RPO?
A common query that we come across in business continuity consulting is, ‘what is the difference between MTO, RTO and RPO?’ MTO is the Maximum Tolerable Outage The Maximum Tolerable Outage for a critical business process represents the maximum amount of time that an organization can survive without the business process in any form (manual or automated). […]