Glossary of Terms
Accident an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance, often with lack of intention or necessity
Activation (of DRP) following a set of documented procedures in a DRP once a predefined trigger (e.g., duration, severity) results in a disaster being declared
Audit an evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, enterprise, project, or product
Availability the ratio of (a) the total time a functional unit is capable of being used during a given interval, to (b) the length of the interval. For example, a unit that is capable of being used 100 hours per week (168 hours) would have an availability of 100/168 or 0.595 (59.5%). In high availability applications, a metric known as nines, corresponding to the number of ...
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