IT
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April
18, 2003
IBM announces new autonomic technologies
MUMBAI -- IBM has announced a suite of autonomic computing
software technologies that allow IT systems to automatically
react to unexpected surges in demand and dynamically
deploy computing resources to handle them.
Together,
the three technologies -- adaptive forecasting, rapid
reconfiguration and online capacity planning -- can
predict the progression of sudden increases in workload
and bring on additional server capacity to handle
the volume, and then free up capacity as the demand
dissipates. These autonomic functions can help improve
business efficiency by optimizing the use of existing
IT resources and ensuring that response-times and
service level targets are met, all with little or
no human intervention.
These
new software technologies work with the latest versions
of the company's WebSphere Application Server v5 and
DB2 v8.1 software products, and work with other third
party database and application servers.
IBM
Global Services e-business management services offering
is currently adapting these technologies to be included
as part of its offerings. Frank Luksic, country executive,
Software Group & Developer Relations, IBM India,
said: "In an on-demand world, where billions
of devices and applications interact daily, enterprise
leaders will need to be free to focus on managing
the intricacies of businesses, rather than the complexities
of technology. IBM understands these issues and is
delivering the technology that contributes to intelligent,
open systems that can mask the complexity of IT systems."
By
using sophisticated mathematical models and a novel
model adaptation scheme, IBM's unique adaptive forecasting
anticipates the progression of an unexpected surge
in demand. The online capacity planning technology
provides estimates of the resources required to defend
the customer service levels for the projected demand.
It then allows a hot swap of resources from one workload
to another with no noticeable interruption to the
end user.
Contact:
IBM India Ltd.
Tel: +91-22-56962020/56962075 Extn. 2075
Email: rahulvbh@in.ibm.com
Web: www.ibm.com
