The technological aspect of business continuity planning. The advance planning and preparations, which are necessary to minimize loss and ensure continuity of the critical business functions of an organization in the event of disaster. SIMILAR TERMS: Contingency planning; business resumption planning; corporate contingency planning; business interruption planning; disaster preparedness.
Contingency planning specifically related to recovering hardware and software (e.g. data centre's, application software, operations, personnel, telecommunications) in information system outages.