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 ...

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 ...

In data recovery discussions with senior IT executives, an oft-repeated refrain is about the difficulty in obtaining an accurate picture of their organizations’ ability to recover key applications and ...

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 ...

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let’s delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...

A data warehouse became corrupted and needed to be recovered. The entire process was completed in three days, and following the completion the IT group felt pleased with the fact that they had ...