Backup and restore are technologies and practices for periodically copying data and applications to a separate, secondary device and then using those copies to recover the data and applications—and the business operations that rely on them—in the event that the original data and applications are lost or damaged due to a power outage, cyberattack, human error, disaster, or other unforeseen event. Backing up and restoring data is an important part of any business' disaster recovery plan.

Data security is the process of safeguarding digital information throughout its lifecycle from unwanted access, corruption, or theft. The deployment of tools and technology that improve the organization's visibility into where its vital data resides and how it is used is part of data security.

The private cloud is described as computing services provided to a chosen group of users rather than the broader public across the Internet or a private internal network.

The process of creating, consuming, storing, organizing, and preserving data created and collected by an organization is known as data management. The data management process entails a number of activities that work together to ensure that data in business systems is correct, accessible, and available.

The recovery time objective is the targeted duration of time between the event of failure and the point where operations resume.

A recovery point objective is the maximum length of time permitted that data can be restored from, which may or may not mean data loss.