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.