Self-healing computers. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).It will be good for organizations' bottom lines, but it may be not so good for employees whose job it is to manage and repair computer systems. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) recently unveiled plans to develop computer systems that will fix themselves when they break. The company is creating a separate division, Autonomic Computing Refers to computer systems and networks that configure themselves to changing conditions and are self healing in the event of failure. "Autonomic" means "automatic responses" to unpredictable events. , to build computer systems that require less human intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. . As part of the software division, the unit also will work on standardizing efforts to operate with software programs from other companies. With most organizations' technology budgets barely increasing in 2002 after falling in 2001, IBM said its goal is to save organizations money by decreasing the number of people needed to manage and repair complex computer systems. |
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