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cold sites  

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  • A cold site, also known as a “shell site,” is a designated standby recovery facility (a warehouse, an empty office building, or a similar construction) large enough to host the mission-critical activities and applications of an organization's primary site. It is essentially a reserved maintained space (raised floors with electricity, air conditioning, humidity controls, fire protection, and pre-installed wiring) ready for the installation of workstations, office equipment, and networking and computer systems that will be shipped in the event of a primary site outage. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crisis Management; Cold Site]

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