Cloud DR Definitions
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B
business continuity
Business continuity is an organization's ability to maintain critical business functions during and after a disaster has occurred.
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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.
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D
disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is a cloud computing service model offered by third-party vendors that provides failover in the event of a natural catastrophe, power outage or other type of business disruption.
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S
synchronous replication
Synchronous replication is the process of copying data over a network to create multiple current copies of the data.
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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.