feat: addressed all the feedback from Dante for background

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diff --git a/content/background.tex b/content/background.tex
index 8349bcf..17d7d47 100644
--- a/content/background.tex
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@@ -73,15 +73,23 @@ Further details about {OpenDC} can be referred to in the linked literature \cite
 
 \subsection{Compute Failures}\label{sss:failures}
 A failure is defined as ``an event that makes a system fail to operate according to its specifications``~\cite{DBLP:journals/jpdc/JavadiKIE13}.
-We distinguish 2 failure types: \begin{enumerate*}[label=(\arabic*)]
-	\item software failures
-	\item hardware failures.
-\end{enumerate*}
-For example, a hypervisor crash a software failure.
-Each \gls{vm} within the crashed hypervisor is killed as a result.
-An example of a hardware failure is a host crash, where a single server stops working (\eg as a result of a disk fault, or faulty power supply cable).
-Hardware and software failures in datacenters result in service downtime, missed \gls{sla} and user inconvenience~\cite{DBLP:conf/acsos/TalluriOVTI21, DBLP:journals/jpdc/JavadiKIE13}.
+A simple example of a failure is when an old hard drive stops working.
+Data on the disk is lost, and services running on the respective server are disrupted.
+In reality, problems with the power supply account for most failures (54\%).
+The runner-ups are problems with cooling (13\%), and \gls{it}/software (12\%)~\cite{DBLP:report/AnnualOutageAnalysis2025}.
+Power related failures may stem from software/firmware issues, battery degradation, overheating, power generator failure, mechanical problems, faulty control logic \etc~\cite{DBLP:report/AnnualOutageAnalysis2025}.
+
+Failure-caused outages are costly.
+According to the Uptime Institute, 20\% of all outages cost more than 1 million
+USD\$~\cite{DBLP:report/AnnualOutageAnalysis2025}.
+Moreover, failures in datacenters result in service downtime, missed \gls{sla} and user inconvenience~\cite{DBLP:conf/acsos/TalluriOVTI21, DBLP:journals/jpdc/JavadiKIE13}.
+Industries that rely on 24 hour access suffer the most from datacenter outages.
+The impact of failures on medical informatics, nuclear power-plants, banks and financial institutions, airlines, and e-commerce is the most severe~\cite{Wikipedia:article/Downtime}.
+Because of this, it is important to prevent failures.
+
 OpenDC uses the notion of a \emph{failure model} to simulate failures, alongside \emph{failure traces}.
+In OpenDC, a failure constitutes a full host crash, regardless of whether the cause of the failure is a hardware of software problem.
+A result of a failure in OpenDC, all tasks running on the given host are killed, and need to be rescheduled.
 A failure model consists of two statistical distributions:
 \begin{enumerate*}[label=(\arabic*)]
 	\item to model service unavailability
diff --git a/images/system_model.png b/images/system_model.png
index 5bb4d8e..f1e0eb4 100644
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diff --git a/main.bib b/main.bib
index d141a51..8fd013c 100644
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+++ b/main.bib
@@ -1191,3 +1191,15 @@
                 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=Jevons_paradox&id=1363548499&wpFormIdentifier=titleform#BibTeX_entry
                 }",
 }
+
+@misc{Wikipedia:article/Downtime,
+        author = "{Wikipedia contributors}",
+        title = "Downtime --- {Wikipedia}{,} The Free Encyclopedia",
+        year = "2026",
+        howpublished = "\url{
+                        https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtime&oldid=1360763149
+                        }",
+        note = "This BibTeX citation comes from \url{
+                https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=Downtime&id=1360763149&wpFormIdentifier=titleform#BibTeX_entry
+                }",
+}
diff --git a/notes/Full_Document_Annot_Dante.pdf b/notes/Full_Document_Annot_Dante.pdf
index ebaeb90..f6b5d43 100644
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