Disaster Recovery, At Your Service

November 16, 2020 Matt Paterini

(Sponsored Content) Every organization needs a sound disaster recovery plan to protect their business from natural disasters, weather events, cyber-attacks, and other unexpected threats. Disaster recovery strategies can take on different forms depending on the requirements of the business, specifically the defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

These RTO and RPO metrics are not precisely the same, but they are interrelated and are part of a complete disaster recovery plan.

The RTO metric is not just a stopwatch that starts ticking between the time applications go down, for whatever reason, and when they come …