The time it takes for the database administrator to conduct the database recovery process directly affects the company’s bottom line. Database downtime impact can be measured in millions of dollars resulting in lost opportunity and disgruntled customers. This paper describes virtual tape technology and advantages which can be realized by the database administrator when database recovery efficie...

This paper describes three related, high-level, strategic patterns that deal with the issue of capacity planning for an e-Business facility. The first, "Build-in Redundancy" suggests that extra capacity is needed in Web service provision to account for increases in demand and component downtime. "Overbuild Sucks" then tempers the consequences of redundancy and, finally, "Share Resources Careful...

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Condition based maintenance (CBM) is a powerful tool for improvement of system reliability and reduction of system downtime. This research considers CBM under which the system state is periodically observed with or without observational error, and maintenance is imperfect. System availability is maximized by determining the optimal maintenance threshold and the time interval between consecutive...

Periorbital rhytids are often the first signs of aging skin for which young patients seek a non-invasive, no downtime treatment. Recently, several skin-tightening modalities based on deep dermal heating with various energy sources, such as monopolar and bipolar radiofrequency, as well as laser and broadband infrared light sources, have been introduced to treat mild wrinkles and skin laxity. Thi...

Nowadays maintenance of database management systems (DBMSs) often requires offline operations for enhancement of functionality or security updates. This hampers the availability of the provided services and can cause undesirable implications. Therefore it is essential to minimize the downtime of DBMSs. We present the CoBRA DB (Component Based Runtime Adaptable DataBase) project that allows the ...

Industrial robots are used customary without any embedded sensors. They rely on a predictable pose of an object (position and orientation in 6 degrees of freedom, 6DOF) when performing the task of gripping parts located for instance on palettes or assembly lines. In practice though, a part can easily deviate from its ideal nominal location and a robot having no embedded sensors can miss or cras...

“The web site is down”. These five words can induce a panic attack in even the most seasoned and level-headed network administrator. Every second of downtime costs money, potentially damages customer relationships, and inhibits new customers. And, to add insult to injury, it is not possible to contact the users to tell them what’s going on because they are nameless, faceless, people located som...

onstant diagnostic evaluation of electric motor-operated valves (MOVs) has become an important tool for asset management, predictive maintenance programs, troubleshooting, and scheduled periodic maintenance. Predictive functionality allows your maintenance personnel to be proactive in servicing MOVs, while limiting costly failures and unscheduled plant process shutdowns. During scheduled downti...