This Content Component encountered an error

Disaster recovery and business continuity planning guide for CIOs

Strategy: Plan for data recovery before disaster strikes <<previous|next>> :Five tips on selecting a data center location

Podcast:

Disaster recovery budgeting and recovery time objectives

By SearchCIO.com Staff

SearchCIO.com

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.

Play now:
Download for later:

Disaster recovery budgeting and RTO

  • Internet Explorer: Right Click > Save Target As
  • Firefox: Right Click > Save Link As

05 Nov 2008

Related glossary terms

Terms from Whatis.com − the technology online dictionary
Enterprise business continuity management

Related Resources