Understanding business continuity and disaster recovery for watsonx Orchestrate
Disaster recovery involves a set of policies, tools, and procedures for returning a system, an application, or an entire data center to full operation after a catastrophic interruption. It includes procedures for copying and storing an installed system's essential data in a secure location, and for recovering that data to restore normalcy of operation.
Responsibilities
To find out more about responsibility ownership for using IBM Cloud® products between IBM and customer see Shared responsibilities for IBM Cloud products.
Disaster recovery strategy
IBM Cloud has business continuity plans in place to provide for the recovery of services within hours if a disaster occurs. You are responsible for your data backup and associated recovery of your content.
watsonx Orchestrate provides mechanisms to protect your data and restore service functions. Business continuity plans are in place to achieve targeted recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for the service. The following table outlines the targets for watsonx Orchestrate.
| Disaster recovery objective | Target Value |
|---|---|
| RPO | 2 hours |
| RTO | 2 hours |
Locations
For more information about service availability within regions and data centers, see Service and infrastructure availability by location.
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