Data restoration and recovery solutions include software and services for disaster recovery, business continuity, and data recovery. Data recovery involves taking damaged or corrupted files, hardware, or media and restoring or retrieving the data in those files. Business continuity involves plans and procedures for keeping all aspects of a business functioning after a disaster, and disaster recovery refers specifically to keeping the IT functions up and running. Companies may provide software and services for all of these areas or just one. Data restoration and recovery companies can be local, serving just a small geographic area, or may serve companies world wide. Companies may target their business continuity and recovery solutions may be targeted to just large enterprises, or may be supplied to businesses of all sizes.