43
BCG M&A Report 2026: europejska wartość M&A wyniosła 541 mld dolarów, wzrost o 43% r/r
BCG09/2026Europe
The maximum acceptable time required to restore a service after a failure. Helps determine backup, redundancy, monitoring, and disaster recovery procedures.
Why it matters
Defines how long a company can withstand being without the system: a quarter-hour, an hour, a day. This number determines whether backup alone is sufficient or if a hot standby is needed.
What's missing without it
Without a recovery time target, restoration takes 'as long as it takes' — and during an outage, it becomes clear that every hour of downtime costs more than redundancy would have.
When it is used
When planning business continuity: selecting architecture, procedures, and budget for an acceptable downtime.
How we use it
An RTO of 2 hours means the CMS dashboard must be restored within a maximum of two hours.
Numbers worth knowing
RTO in data
541
BCG M&A Report 2026: europejska wartość M&A wyniosła 541 mld dolarów, wzrost o 43% r/r
BCG09/2026Europe
85
BCG M&A Report 2026: wartość transakcji w UK wzrosła o 85% do 178 mld dolarów
BCG09/2026Europe
149
BCG M&A Report 2026: wartość transakcji w Niemczech wzrosła o 149% r/r
BCG09/2026Europe