Characterizing cloud computing hardware reliability

Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SoCC '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 193-203

  Vishwanath, Kashi Venkatesh ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Datacenter; Failures

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA CENTERS; END-USERS; FAILURE CHARACTERISTICS; HARD DISKS; HARDWARE COMPONENTS; HARDWARE COST; HARDWARE FAILURES; MEMORY MODULES; NETWORK CARD; OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HARDWARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SERVERS;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 77954942122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1807128.1807161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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