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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The chief information security officer (CISO) plays a critical role in the security strategies for organizations today. With ransomware attacks on the rise and the technology footprint of businesses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...