A company has concluded based on past website downtime events that two hours is as long as its website can be down before the company suffers irreparably. What does this timeframe apply to?

Topics:    
- Business Continuity Methods    
- Disaster Recovery Methods    
- Backup and Recovery    

Planning for failure may sound counterintuitive, but it is the key to business survival in the event of a disaster. Policies are created to provide structure in the efficient recovery of failed systems.    
Fault tolerance removes single points of failure while maintaining an acceptable level of performance. Alternate sites provide a way of continuing business operations across geographic distances. Data is protected with backups, snapshots, cloning, and so on.