November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
19h 15m
English
Most organizations have a requirement to be able to survive the loss of a building or campus. This might be driven by the business. For example, the owner or shareholders are investing in a business and not in a property. They expect that operations are mobile and able to survive an incident such as a fire, chemical leak, act of terrorism, or natural disaster. Some organizations face regulatory requirements that are dictated either by an industrial organization or by the government.
IT people refer to any disaster-proof IT infrastructure as disaster recovery (DR). That is a pretty loose term. You could get 100 descriptions of disaster recovery if you asked 100 IT professionals ...