Any review of ASR would be incomplete without a review of disaster recovery and the need for a disaster recovery solution. Let's review some terms that will be used throughout this section:
- Disaster Recovery (DR): This is an area of security and organizational planning that involves a set of policies, procedures, and tools to enable the continuation and/or recovery of critical infrastructure and systems in the aftermath of a natural or other disaster
- Business Continuity Plan: This refers to the preparation and planning guidelines that ensure that an organization can continue to operate in the event of a disaster and, importantly, that the organization is, within a predetermined period of time, able to recover to an acceptable operational state
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO): This is the amount of time after a disaster within which a business process must...