While we often discuss resilient architectures, high-availability and backups we do not give proper attention to the human elements of handling disaster. This talk aims at rectifying this situation and explains how to prepare for disaster and how to handle it, extracting maximum value (yes, extracting value) from calamity.

Math scares people, but it isn't that hard - and it is important. This talks gives various examples of mathematical analysis of reliability problems and the valuables lessons we learn from applying mathematics to problems.