From the course: Cloud Computing: BC/DR Best Practices

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What is BC/DR?

What is BC/DR?

From the course: Cloud Computing: BC/DR Best Practices

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What is BC/DR?

- [Instructor] So let's get into what disaster recovery is, and how it's related to cloud computing. Ultimately, the general concept is that we're able to recover from some sort of a disaster. Could be a hurricane, could be a pandemic. It could be anything that stops business processing from occurring, and it allows us to recover the business. So, ultimately, it provides us a path, sometimes a long one, sometimes a short one, into recovering from some sort of disaster that occurs within our IT infrastructure within the cloud. Keep in mind, that disasters can be a lot of things. They can be a pandemic, like we recently suffered. They can be a natural disaster, such as a tornado. They can be flooding or even earthquakes. And you name it, there's probably disasters that we may not have thought of that we'll have to deal with at sometime in the future, but basically it's anything that interrupts processing. Anything that interrupts…

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