Why Should You Be Concerned About Your RTOS And RPOS?

For years businesses and their IT departments have struggled to understand and communicate effectively with each other, resulting in either significant under or over investment in both operational and disaster recovery application protection. 

Accurate RPO and RTO metrics have helped bridge this gap and, combined with business impact analysis, facilitate the alignment of applications to correct data protection levels and generate the accurate levels of investment to protect data.

SLAs are unachievable unless a business has the capabilities to deliver them. Organisations need to understand how and where data protection is delivered in order to optimise operations and meet the SLAs. 

Although they typically play significant roles, backups, snap shots and mirrors do not solely deliver RTOs and RPOs. Many levels of resilience throughout the IT supply chain combine to deliver recovery capabilities. These must all be accurately measured to generate the RPOs and RTOs. 

These quantifiable objectives translate requirements into tangible metrics which facilitate the selection of infrastructure to enable effective achievement of the SLAs, even in an unforeseen disaster situation.