Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 30 | Page 47

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// plan is ‘restore up to last available backup’, the RPO is the maximum interval between such backup that has been safely vaulted offsite. BCDR in the cloud era With the advent of hyperscale cloud service providers like Microsoft now available in South Africa, most organisations are relooking www.intelligentcio.com FEATURE: BUSINESS CONTINUITY and rethinking their BCDR strategies. The importance here is that organisations can do as many BCDR tests as needed, without the need and cost of an army of resources to make this happen. BCDR in the cloud has the following advantages: 1. Protection of all major IT systems – and doing so is more affordable. This means Corne du Preez, Technology Solutions Professional: Apps and Infra, Altron Karabina INTELLIGENTCIO 47