You are the IT director for a law enforcement agency. The agency IT system must remain running at all times. An alternate location to house mission-critical servers, data, and personnel has been acquired. What else is needed for this hot site?

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.