A cold site is essentially an empty facility. It has the essential infrastructure-such as power, climate control, and basic telecommunications wiring-but contains no installed servers, storage devices, or network equipment. Because the organization must ship in and configure all hardware and restore data before operations resume, a cold site has the longest activation time. By contrast, hot sites are fully equipped and synchronized for near-immediate use, and warm sites contain hardware but usually require software installation and data restoration.
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