What is Operational Resilience? | DORA, RPO, RTO, and Data Resilience explained

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What is resilience, and what does it mean to your business? The answers were starkly clear in our Cockroach Labs survey – one that’s a wake-up call for enterprises everywhere. Our report engaged 1,000 senior technology executives worldwide, a vast majority of whom agree their organizations face extreme challenges in remaining resilient. 93% of the executives expressed worry about downtime’s impact – and a full 100% reported experiencing outage-related revenue losses in the past year. The cost of being unprepared could reach startling heights, with per-outage losses ranging from at least $10,000 to over $1,000,000. When it comes to an enterprise’s IT infrastructure, resilience is critically important. But what does it mean to be resilient? Business resilience, also known as operational resilience or resiliency, is all about an IT system’s ability to withstand and recover from disruptions – or outright failures – and keep operating effectively. So join Cockroach Labs Technical Evangelist as he dives into resilience, regulations such as DORA, Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Recovery Time Objective (RTO), your biggest questions about monolithic vs distributed systems, why enterprises trust CockroachDB, and so much more. What is Operational Resilience? | DORA, RPO, RTO, and Data Resilience explained 00:00 The State of Resilience 2025: The most shocking numbers 01:18 Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) impacts 02:18 Defense in depth explained 02:39 RTO and RPO in a monolithic database 03:16 RTO and RPO in a distributed database 04:11 Data replication in CockroachDB explained 04:45 Data replication in a monolithic database 05:12 How CockroachDB can minimize downtime 06:04 How different topologies survive downtime 07:14 Physical Cluster Replication (PCR) and Logical Data Replication (LDR) explained 08:20 How CockroachDB can satisfy today's operational resilience requirements More resources: 📖 The State of Resilience 2025: https://cockroa.ch/3EHVhAh 📄 Multi-Active Availability in CockroachDB: https://cockroa.ch/414cdII ⏯️ Operational Resilience in the age of DORA: https://cockroa.ch/3D9xyZ3