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New IBM Software Will Monitor, Repair Problems in Computer Systems.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2002
By Crayton Harrison, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 2--It's 3 a.m., and CNN has just reported breaking news about your company. Your Web site, unaccustomed to large amounts of traffic, is suddenly slammed with visitors, so you need more capacity.
But do you want to pay someone to baby-sit your Web site all night just in case it happens? International Business Machines Corp. doesn't think so.
IBM is designing new software and technology tools to create computer systems that monitor themselves, fixing what breaks, responding to drastic changes in capacity needs, and switching to emergency back-up systems when disaster strikes. Some of the technology is already available, installed in IBM systems. The company...
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