Patrick wants to make a contract with a company to have data center space equipped and ready to go so that he could bring his data to the location in the event of a disaster. What type of disaster recovery site is he seeking?

Patrick is looking for a warm site, which has some or all of the infrastructure and systems he needs but does not have data. If a disaster occurs, Patrick can bring any equipment that he needs or wants to the site along with his organization’s data to resume operations. A hot site is a fully functional environment with all the hardware, software, and data needed to operate an organization. They are expensive to maintain and run but are used by organizations that cannot take the risk of downtime. A cold site is a location that can be brought online but does not have systems; cold sites typically have access to power and bandwidth but need to be fully equipped to operate after a disaster since they are just rented spaces. An RTO is a recovery time objective, and it measures how long it should take to resume operations; it is not a type of disaster recovery site.