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Data Centers are the backbone of any industry that provides a specialized environment to safeguard the company's valuable equipment and intellectual property. The successful operation of company's Data Center is typically shared among multiple departments and personnel. But, the involvement of multiple personal and departments make its configuration complex. In such situations, reliability of data center become a necessary factor. But, the traditional theory of reliability is based on the Bernoulli trials, i.e., either operative or failure. But this situation is unrealistic in case of complex systems like data center. To rectify this problem, here a mathematical model has been developed using the concept of fuzzy reliability. All the failure and repair rates are exponential distributed along with coverage factor. Chapman-Kolmogorov differential equations have been developed for the fuzzy system using Markov birth–death process. A new methodology Runge–Kutta method of order four has been used to solve Chapman-Kolmogorov differential equations using MATLAB (Ode 45 function).
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Saini, M., Dahiya, O. & Kumar, A. Modeling and availability analysis of data center: a fuzzy approach. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 13, 2453–2460 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-020-00532-7
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