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Data Protection: Downtime Is Money
WHITE PAPER Data Protection: Downtime Is Money Smarter Approaches to Data Protection and Recovery By Hitachi Vantara April 20202 Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 How Much Does the Backup Window Cost? 4 Incremental-Forever Backup 5 How Does RPO Impact RTO? 6 The Hidden Cost of RTO May Be Your RPO 8 The Solution Is Clear 9 Storage-Accelerated Data Protection and Recovery 9 Host-Based Data Protection and Recovery 103 Executive Summary The primary attributes for measuring the effectiveness of a data protection and recovery solution are backup window, recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). These points measure the time it takes to perform the protection operation, the interval between protection operations, and the time it takes to perform a recovery