A company headquartered on the Gulf Coast operates its primary data center in Houston. The security team is designing a disaster-recovery plan so that a single hurricane, flood, or regional power outage cannot take down all critical services at once. Which resiliency concept specifically calls for placing duplicate IT services-such as application servers, storage, and backups-in facilities located in separate geographic regions to reduce the chance of simultaneous failure?
Geographic dispersion is the deliberate allocation of data centers, backup sites, and other critical IT resources into different physical regions. By separating sites far enough apart that a single natural disaster, utility failure, or other localized incident cannot affect every site at the same time, an organization improves uptime and meets recovery objectives. Colocation simply hosts equipment in a shared facility and might still leave all systems in one area. Load balancing distributes traffic across servers but does not necessarily place them in different regions. High availability is a broader goal that can be achieved through many techniques-geographic dispersion being just one of them.
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