Reliability and Field Aging Time Using Temperature Sensors

In the last few years the IT infrastructure system management has evolved adding features and automating most of the IT operations. Temperature sensor management is now available throughout the entire infrastructure, allowing a direct control of temperature-related parameters at the single endpoint level. This paper presents a deviation from the standard, pre-release definition of reliability, and includes field temperature effects on the failure rate, thus moving from a statistical to a more endpoint-specific definition of reliability. An implementation example of a cumulative reliability factor for data center electronic systems is also presented.