Bayesian analysis in disaster recovery planning and investment justification.

[jeffroughgarden]

I fully support this sort of analysis; however, it does not seem to be particularly Bayesian in nature. I don't see prior probabilites being updated into posterior probabilities as a result of intervening events. Rather, it looks like a standard decision analysis that uses industry-standard probabilites for disk and network failures. All that nit-picking being said, the product does look very useful for making informed decisions about disaster recovery. Just don't mention probabilities to mgmt.

[ryanb909]

This looks like a very useful application. A product to quantify trade-offs in storage design would be a welcome addition to my tool-kit.