The IT team at a large retail company is reviewing their disaster recovery strategy to align it with the organization's requirement for moderate downtime in event recovery scenarios. They are considering implementing a warm site. Which of the following best describes the state of a warm site that they should expect?
Lacks any pre-installed hardware and is primarily an empty data center reserved for emergency use.
Partially equipped with servers, network connections, and possibly some live data feeds, but requires some configuration to become fully operational.
Fully operational with all services, applications, and data mirrored from the primary site running in real-time.
Equipped only with the physical infrastructure and requires all servers, applications, and data to be restored before operations can resume.
A warm site is typically partially equipped with network connections and a selection of servers. It might include live data feeds but often lacks some of the broader infrastructural elements, like up-to-date data backups, that would be immediately available at a hot site. The warm site also requires a brief period required for configuration to provide business services, different from a cold site that has only infrastructure but no data feeds initially active, and different from a hot site that would be fully functional and ready to operate.
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