In information technology, real-time recovery (RTR) is the ability to recover a piece of IT infrastructure such as a server from an infrastructure failure or human-induced error in a time frame that has minimal impact on business operations.
A real-time recovery solution must contain (at a minimum) the following attributes: The ability to restore a server in minutes to the same, totally different or to a virtual environment to within 5 minutes ago and not require the use of any additional agents, options or modules to accomplish this.
This would limit the number of technologies that organizations will have to get trained on, skilled up on, purchase, deploy, manage and maintain.
In an ideal world, if you can reduce the complexity of managing multiple products to protect your physical and virtual infrastructure you will reap the rewards.
A technology that gets installed at the operating system level ensures consistency in an environment that is either physical or virtual and eliminates API compatibility or Disk Volume Structure limitations (e.g.