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Article: Disaster recovery for the masses: the role of OS-level server virtualization in disaster recovery.(Disaster Recovery & Backup/Restore)
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- Computer Technology Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Disaster recovery is a hot topic again. Events like hurricane Katrina tend to make organizations reflect on their vulnerabilities--including asking their IT departments about that disaster recovery project started (but never quite completed) back in 2002.
Disaster recovery planning is quite a complex undertaking. It includes considerations such evaluating each application and data source to determine both a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO). RPO is the amount of data that can be lost before it affects the organization, and RTO is the time it takes to recover and restart the server and application. Together, these provide ...