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| Home / Risk Glossary / Hot Site | 2 September, 2010 | |
Hot Site (Definition)Backup site fully equipped to take over data processing operations at short notice. Contains fully configured equipment and communications links. Data is frequently or continuously replicated from the live site to the hot site, either by data communication links or physical transport of backup media. Hot Sites provide a very high level of disaster recovery protection, but the cost of maintaining a hot site facility can be extremely high. See Also: Alternate Site, Cold Site, Mobile Site, Warm Site. Risky Thinking Newsletter Are you responsible for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or Risk Management in your organization? Then you may wish to receive a free subscription to the the monthly Risky Thinking Newsletter. It contains news, opinions and articles of interest to people working in these areas. View a sample issue, or click here to subscribe. Recent articles have included: In a recent radio show, the glib radio host implied that the Y2K risk never really existed. Was he right? Or do his comments tell us more about human nature than about the risks arising from time representation in computer systems?
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