Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. When disaster ...

Agencies need to improve their recovery time objectives for applications, data sets and systems to ensure they continue to operate in the face of increased threats to their IT environments. Recovery ...

Vanta reports that developing a disaster recovery plan is crucial for organizations to minimize downtime and recover swiftly ...

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 ...

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is in reference to the maximum amount of data loss that can be allowed. Should a company achieve an RPO of zero, it will essentially mean that no data was lost. Recovery ...

When you write a service-level agreement with one of the groups in your company, how do you make sure that the value they place on the data they leave under your control actually corresponds to the ...

As companies continue shifting mission-critical systems to the cloud, they’re discovering that 24/7/365 reliability isn’t a given. Even brief outages can interrupt sales, slow internal workflows and ...

As noted in the first article in this series, IT disaster recovery (DR) strategies and procedures help organisations protect their investments in IT systems and infrastructures. The essential mission ...

You are only as good as your last backup, so it is said, so making regular backups is a keystone of any business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. Firms need to keep copies of their data to ...

For years, Amazon has made it possible to copy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), either within a region or across regions. These AMI copy operations are often a key step in disaster recovery operations.