In a recent paper ‘Recovery After an Outage: RTO/RPO’ published on the IT-World website, Dmitry Livshin spoke on:
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which IT services are essential to business operations
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how to calculate the cost of forced downtime and data loss
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what recovery scenarios are viable in response to various incidents
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what factors most often hinder recovery
Special emphasis was paid to the need for companies to recover quickly.
‘Continuous monitoring is the primary tool for preventing incidents, as it helps developers to identify bottlenecks early on. If such monitoring is not in place, IT staff will end up learning about emerging issues from end users—and that in itself constitutes a very poor practice,’ noted the expert.
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