What's the recovery time objective (RTO) for your disaster recovery (DR) plan? How fast will the CEO come pounding on your door wanting to know when the phones, website and other basics will be up and how the downtime will affect the business? In this expert podcast, special projects editor Karen Guglielmo interviews Forrester Research Inc. analyst Stephanie Balaouras about DR budgeting and RTO.
BIOGRAPHY: Balaouras is a principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester. She primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for security and risk professionals. She is a leading expert in how companies build resilient IT infrastructures to support key business initiatives. Balaouras has been instrumental in the development of Forrester's research and offerings in business continuity, disaster recovery and information storage and protection. Her research focuses on the business strategies, operational processes and organizational structures required to govern business continuity programs, as well as the technologies for high-availability, next-generation backup and disaster recovery.
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This was first produced in November 2008
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