Commercial fault tolerance: A tale of two systems

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-96

  Bartlett, Wendy ^a   Spainhower, Lisa ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer systems implementation; Fault tolerance; High availability

Indexed keywords

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SERVERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION; DATA INTEGRITY; HIGH AVAILABILITY; STOCK MARKETS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 12344287173     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2004.4     Document Type: Article

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