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Glossary: Resilience and Recovery

availability

Also written: uptime

The "A" in the CIA triad: systems and data being usable when they are needed. It is measured as the share of time a system is up, and for a repairable system it equals MTBF ÷ (MTBF + MTTR).

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity and availability)high availability (HA)ninesmean time between failures (MTBF)mean time to repair (MTTR)