Are your clients prepared for the next time disaster strikes? No one can predict when the next disruption event may hit your clients’ data centers or IT rooms, but your job as their MSP is to ensure ...

Do you judge that recovery requirements have been met simply by saying 'we have two units' or 'we took a backup'? In SA ...

RPO and RTO explained: a cloud CEO shares a real-world disaster recovery setup with a one-second RPO and a four-hour RTO for over 1,200 VMs.

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 ...

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 ...

Achieving the best results when it comes to data backup and recovery involves the use of two important metrics: recovery time objective and recovery point objective. Both metrics are essential when ...

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 expert team at Freeform Dynamics offer news and views on the latest hot topics, and pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and meaningful research studies. I think we can all agree that ...

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 ...

Two important metrics -- recovery time objective and recovery point objective -- are essential when developing data backup and recovery plans, as well as data storage, business continuity, technology ...