Disaster Recovery Terms

Business Continuity (BC)
Includes planning to ensure the continuity of business critical functions in the event of a major unplanned service failure or disaster--including key aspects such as personnel, facilities, crisis communication, project management and change control. A BC strategy includes a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for IT related infrastructure recovery.


Disaster Recovery (DR)
Part of a larger Business Continuity plan that includes processes and solutions to restore business critical applications, data, hardware, communications (such as networking) and other IT infrastructure. Can also include measures to protect against other unplanned events such as the failure of an individualserver or shorter service interruptions.


Mission-critical
Systems or applications that are essential to the functioning of your business and its processes.


Redundancy
Systematically using multiple sources, devices or connections to eliminate single points of failure that could completely stop the flow of information.


High Availability (HA)
A system or component that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time.


Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
The Recovery Point Objective defines the maximum amount of time permitted between corporate resource backups. If a company's RPO is two hours, all data vital to operations must be backed up every two hours. With a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of two hours, all resources can then be restored to no later than two hours before the failure.


Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
The maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs.


Hotsite
A DR facility fully equipped with the equipment, network connections and environmental conditions necessary for restoring your data and getting your systems up and running instantly. (unlike coldsites and warmsites, which are not ready to go in an instant)


Welcome to the KingsBridge Knowledge Base

You probably don't spend most of your time thinking about the best ways to deal with business continuity challenges, but we do! The information in our blog and white papers are meant to help those outside of the Disaster Recovery industry become informed on the key questions, strategies and practices every business should be aware of when approaching their disaster recovery solution.

KingsBridge continually strives to learn about business continuity and disaster recovery and is a valued contributor at events such as the Disaster Recovery Journal Conference. Critical participation and constant research allows us to develop new processes and streamline our work flow as much as possible. Our customers benefit from the high quality software, seminars and consulting that come from KingsBridge's active involvement in and commitment to the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity industry.

In this section you will find information on our Blog, White Papers and the latest news about Phoenix - the only Microsoft Integrated planning tool.



KingsBridge Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Blog

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KingsBridge Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning WhitePapers

Here are some excellent documents on Recovery Planning and what to consider when doing your recovery planning. We will add more documents here each time we learn something new; bookmark this page and visit often to ensure you are current on everything related to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning.

  • If you are trying to build a case for Recovery planning for your business, read Why Plan? to learn compelling reasons to plan your Recovery before you are forced to recover without a plan.

  • Have you been tasked with developing a plan and you don't know what the difference is between Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Emergency Response Planning? Read more to learn the difference.



KingsBridge Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Press Releases

In case you've missed KingsBridge's press releases, we've included them here:

  • KingsBridge releases the first Microsoft Office integrated Phoenix, making a very easy planning tool even easier (April 28 2008)

  • KingsBridge buys the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery business from Binomial International. (February 8 2008)