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Three reliability engineering techniques and their application to evaluating the availability of IT systems: An introduction


Abstract:

We present a brief introduction to three reliability engineering techniques: failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis; reliability block diagrams; and fault tree a...Show More

Abstract:

We present a brief introduction to three reliability engineering techniques: failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis; reliability block diagrams; and fault tree analysis. We demonstrate the use of one of these techniques, reliability block diagrams, in evaluating the availability of information technology (IT) systems through a case study involving an IT system supported by a three-tier Web-server configuration.
Published in: IBM Systems Journal ( Volume: 47, Issue: 4, 2008)
Page(s): 577 - 589
Date of Publication: 31 December 2008
Print ISSN: 0018-8670

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