Cloud DR Definitions

  • B

    business continuity

    Business continuity is an organization's ability to maintain critical business functions during and after a disaster has occurred.

  • C

    cloud disaster recovery (cloud DR)

    Cloud disaster recovery (cloud DR) is a combination of strategies and services intended to back up data, applications and other resources to public cloud or dedicated service providers.

  • What is change control?

    Change control is a systematic approach that includes the various steps needed to process changes made to a product or system.

  • D

    What is disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)?

    Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is a managed IT service that allows an organization to replicate some of its IT assets off-site in a data center that is owned and managed by a cloud service provider (CSP).

  • S

    synchronous replication

    Synchronous replication is the process of copying data over a network to create multiple current copies of the data.

  • W

    warm site

    A warm site is a type of facility an organization uses to recover its technology infrastructure when its primary data center goes down. A warm site features an equipped data center but no customer data.