Techniques for disaster tolerant information technology systems

Proceedings of the 1st Annual 2007 IEEE Systems Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 333-338

  Lawler, Chad M ^a,c   Szygenda, Stephen A ^b,c   Thornton, Mitchell A ^c  

^a Data Return LLC   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Southern Methodist University

Author keywords

Affects; Application downtime; Complex infrastructure systems survivability; Criticality driven; Disaster recovery; Disaster tolerance; Disaster tolerant computing and communications; DR; Interdependent interacting; Secondary; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

APPLICATION DOWNTIME; COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS SURVIVABILITY; DISASTER RECOVERY; DISASTER TOLERANCE; DISASTER TOLERANT COMPUTING; INTERDEPENDENT INTERACTING;

DISASTERS;

EID: 34748852544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2007.374693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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