Patent ID: 7360123

Claim:
A method comprising: exposing at least three dimensions of a protection system to a user, wherein the at least three dimensions are interrelated, and wherein the at least three dimensions comprise a protection methods dimension, a resources dimension, and a recovery targets dimension that specifies recoverability properties of an asset protected by the protection system; receiving user input indicating a modification in a first dimension of the at least three dimensions; determining an effect of the modification in each other dimension of the at least three dimensions, wherein a parameterized dimension of the at least three dimensions is parameterized for each other one of the at least three dimensions, and wherein, responsive to the modification being in a different dimension from the parameterized dimension, determining the effect of the modification comprises determining the effect in the parameterized dimension and then determining the effect in one or more remaining dimensions of the at least three dimensions excluding the different dimension and the parameterized dimension; and displaying the effect of the modification on the other dimensions to the user.