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  Each company will have a different disaster recovery plan but whatever the business is, there are some ground rules which you should always follow. Read below and follow along. RTO and RPO. What Are They And Why They Are Important To Disaster Recovery? Before devising you disaster recovery plan, you should first determine your RPO and RTO. RPO - Recovery Point Objective Recovery point objective (RPO) is the age of data that you need to recover to be able to operate effectively after a “disaster” takes out your systems. For instance, do you require the last 30 days or data? The last 60? The last year? 10 years? The farther back your recovery point objective is, the more storage space you will require and the more your disaster recovery package will cost. RTO - Recovery Time Objective Your recovery time objective (RTO) is how long it should take for the disaster recovery plan to be implemented. Thought of another way, this is the maximum amount of downtime your business coul

Cloud computing has grown in popularity in the last decade, but many businesses are still unsure of what it is and how it would be beneficial to them. Put simply, cloud computing services are IT services which take place on “someone else’s computer” and not on your own network. In reality the other computer is normally a data centre. The Three Types of Cloud Computing 1. PaaS (Platform as a service)  PaaS cloud computing offers an online space for app development or analytics. The benefit of PaaS is that if you have developers working remotely or in different countries, they can collaborate together in real time in the same environment. 2. SaaS (Software as a Service) SaaS cloud computing services provider software which is delivered and accessed via the web rather than installed on the local hardware. CRM software like Zoho or Salesforce is an example of SaaS 3. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) IaaS cloud services allow you to move key components of your IT infrastructure to t