Write a discussion thread on one of the main features of a business continuity plan: providing One of the availabilities determined by the analysis stage of the business continuity process. Disaster recovery is perhaps a misnomer, since it implies that systems, applications and services have failed catastrophically and need to be brought back online. While this might be the case for some services, it is not necessarily true for all, since an element of proactive work can $($and usually should$)$ be carried out, and it may be the case that just one component in the service has failed but that this causes a chain reaction and requires a disaster recovery process to be invoked..