Sleeping on the left also allows much of the intestines to hang away from the very thin-walled inferior vena cava (IVC) which brings venous blood back toward the heart. Interestingly, the IVC lies against the right side of the spine, so when you lie on the left much of the viscera falls away from the IVC.
What is a 'Repurchase Agreement - Repo'. A repurchase agreement (repo) is a form of short-term borrowing for dealers in government securities. The dealer sells the government securities to investors, usually on an overnight basis, and buys them back the following day.
Each DRaaS offering you look at will define in their Service Level Agreement (SLA) what their promised RPO and RTO are. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) refers to the point in time in the past to which you will recover. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) refers to the point in time in the future at which you will be up and running again. Think of the above diagram as a timeline of events during which a disaster happens. The RPO will be the point to which you will have all data up to that point recovered. The gap between the disaster and the RPO will likely be lost as a result of the disaster. On the timeline, RTO is the point in the future at which you will be back up and running full speed ahead.