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| '''1.''' The Hot Site is an alternate facility in another location.  It has the capacity to sustain business operations and absorb the additional workload almost immediately, when the [[Primary Site|primary site]] is inaccessible, or the services there are unavailable; such a facility will be 
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[[critical]] to business survival.  

Similar Terms:  Hot Backup Site.

'''Related Terms''': [[Alternate Site]].

'''Note (1)''': It is a facility equipped with hardware and communications capabilities that can be occupied by the [[organization]] in the [[event]] of a [[disaster]]. From a disaster recovery perspective, this site is ready to assume the production application processing capability with little or no preparation.  

'''Note (2)''': Systems, networks and applications are all in place and up-to-date and live data is already onsite.  

'''Note (3)''': There are three types of hot sites - private, cooperative or commercially operated.

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'''2.''' A site (data centre, work area) that provides a [[Business Continuity Management (BCM)|BCM]] facility with the relevant work area recovery, telecommunications and IT interfaces and environmentally controlled space capable of providing relatively immediate [[backup]] data processing support to maintain the [[Organization|organization's]] Mission [[Critical]] [[Activity|Activities]].

('''Source:''' Business Continuity Institute - BCI)


'''3.''' An alternate facility that already has in place the computer, telecommunications, and environmental infrastructure required to [[recover]] [[Critical Business Functions (CBF)|critical business functions]] or information [[System|systems]].

('''Source:''' Disaster Recovery Institute International / Disaster Recovery Journal - DRII/DRJ)