A widely accepted equation for availability is Availability=MTTF/(MTTF+MTTR), where MTTF is the mean time to failure of a system or subsystem (i.e. the reciprocal of reliability), MTTR is its mean time to recovery, and A is a number between 0 and 1. The equation suggests that to improve availability, a 10x decrease in MTTR (for example) is just as valuable as a 10x increase in MTTF, a founding ...
