Event Cost Quantification for High-Availability Storage Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
High-availability data storage systems are expensive, and users may not fully realize the value of their reliability due to the lack of transparent cost quantification for failure events, which can lead to unseen financial losses during system failures.
Innovation Solution
A method to monitor high-availability storage systems for failure events, associate these events with costs, and inform relevant parties about the saved or incurred costs, including time-based and fixed-based costs, enabling billing for portions of the failure event costs, thereby providing transparency and justifying the system's value.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If specialty hardware and methodologies are employed to protect and distribute electronic content, then reliability is improved, but cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by monitoring failure events and calculating their costs, then reporting these costs to users. This creates a closed-loop system where the value of reliability is continuously measured and communicated, allowing users to understand the financial impact of failures and the savings provided by the high-availability system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the cost quantification system) between the specialty hardware and the user. This intermediary translates technical reliability metrics into financial terms, making the value proposition tangible and understandable for business decision-making.
2Reliability
If high-availability storage systems are deployed, then data availability is improved, but the value realization is worsened due to lack of transparent cost quantification
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides continuous feedback about failure costs and savings to users, transforming invisible reliability value into visible financial metrics. This feedback mechanism enables users to realize and understand the concrete value provided by the high-availability system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the invisible value of reliability visible by presenting cost information in a clear, quantifiable format. This is analogous to making something invisible visible - the financial value of reliability is 'colored in' through specific cost calculations and presentations.
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AI summary
A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring a high-availability storage system for the occurrence of a failure event from which the high-availability storage system automatically recovered. The failure event is associated with a failure event cost. A party associated with the high-availability storage system is informed of the failure event cost.