Summary RTO and RPO are critical metrics for today’s data protection environments, and choosing the appropriate approach requires a detailed understanding of the environment and business objectives.

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.

We look at RPO and RTO in defining data protection and disaster recovery strategies and how to specify tiers that reflect the importance of different systems in your organisation.

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 ...

RPO and RTO outline a data set’s need for protection So RPO describes how often I need to protect my data to ensure that I can get back to what I had at the point when disaster or data ...

This gives them a good RTO for operational recoveries, but a lousy RPO for disasters. This is why most experts advise against shipping the original backup off-site.

All backups are not created equal. While having any backup is better than having no backup, the different approaches to backups can have dramatic effects on business continuity, should disaster strike ...

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 ...

Veeam has already been working on an outcome-based engagement with select clients, where it helps them meet stringent business continuity requirements with an RTO/RPO (recovery time objective and ...

In-Depth How RPO and RTO Impact Business Continuity All backups are not created equal. While having any backup is better than having no backup, the different approaches to backups can have dramatic ...