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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the other end of the scale, there are companies working to zero RTO’s and RPO’s that have synchronous physical standby solutions. These companies prioritise disaster recovery and are acutely aware ...

One of the most important but often missed steps in having a reliable infrastructure is disaster recovery (DR). Surprisingly, most companies decide either to not implement DR or to implement it ...

Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection, and security software provider, is making enhancements to NetVault Plus—a cloud-ready enterprise data protection solution that enables ...

Assured Data Protection unveiled a disaster recovery service powered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) Zerto as a means ...

How to Get the Most Out of Your Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan Your email has been sent On the surface, it would seem cloud computing was made for disaster recovery, a “set it and forget it” concept due ...

Kent-based construction design consultancy Frankham Group has ditched tape-based backup and deployed Rubrik appliances in a move that has seen it slash data restores from days to hours and gain the ...

In an article aimed at people new to business continuity and disaster recovery, Mitch Mitchell explains what the difference between these two vital disciplines is and why it is a mistake to use the ...