Guard against an under/over vendor purchase. Do your homework. Many vendors use the same terms but mean very different things.

Make sure you know what you are buying and how it fits your actual needs. “For example, if you plan for a 24-hour recovery time objective (RTO), but your application and business needs require a four-hour RTO, then your plan – at any cost – will not be successful in meeting your requirements,” says Jim Grogan, senior director at SunGard Availability Services. “Alternatively, if you develop the capability to recover in two hours, but your business processes really only needed 24-48 hour recovery, then you have likely invested in premier services that were not needed.”

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