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Autonomic Computing - Tomorrow's technology, today
As quickly as computer technology has advanced, so has the cost and
complexity of deploying, managing and maintaining that technology. However,
today's economic environment is forcing businesses to demand a real return on
technology investments.
To address this paradox, several leading IT vendors are starting to look for
ways to manage increasingly complex IT infrastructures so that customers can get
back to focusing on the benefits technology brings to their business, rather
than the technology itself. While still a mere vision that is thought to be
eight to 10 years away, one ideology calls for the development of autonomic
computing: computer systems that configure and manage themselves, automatically
diagnose and fix their own problems, and figure out how to protect themselves in
the future, thereby greatly reducing the cost and complexity of IT
infrastructure.
 IBM
Corporation defines Autonomic Computing as an approach to self-managed computing
systems with a minimum of human interference. The term derives from the body's
autonomic nervous system, which controls key functions without conscious
awareness or involvement.
Autonomic Computing systems are systems which are self-managed (adjust itself
according to workload demands), self-healing (detect, diagnose and repair
problems), self-configuring (automatically incorporate and configure new
components), self-optimizing (performance tuning), and self-protecting
(anticipate and defend against security breaches) resulting in ultra-reliable,
robust, yet dynamically flexible systems.
The research departments at several organizations, including IBM Autonomic
Computing, Microsoft .NET, Sun N1 and HP Adaptive Infrastructure, have just
recently started initiatives to focus on autonomic and next generation
computing. Net Integration Technologies has been developing and delivering
award-winning, next generation Autonomic Computing technology since 1997.
Nitix is the first server operating system in the world that satisfies the
criteria of an autonomic computing system:
On a Nitix-powered server, if an administrator changes the configuration of a
particular service, Nitix automatically updates affected subsystems. For
example, firewall and DNS parameters are automatically (and correctly) updated,
when an administrator makes his web server public.
NetIntelligence
is the unique technology that enables Nitix's self-managing capabilities.
Nitix is able to detect and correct problems that on other servers would
result in downtime, and then human intervention to remedy.
NetIntelligence
is the unique technology that enables Nitix's self-healing capabilities.
When setting up a new Nitix-powered server, Nitix automatically detects and
configures standard networking parameters. When adding new users to
Nitix-powered server, Nitix automatically creates a personal directory, an email
account and a personal webpage for each user. By automating many standard server
configuration tasks, Nitix-powered servers allow our Double Eagle Services, Inc
to focus on customizations that are specific to the unique business requirements
of their end-user customers. NetIntelligence
is the unique technology that enables Nitix's self-configuring capabilities.
Based on the requirements of the end-user customer and their local-area
network, Nitix-powered servers automatically erect and configure secure
firewalls. Nitix-powered servers also have the ability to detect and evade
malicious external attacks. If a foreign program should attempt to modify the
Nitix operating system, Nitix will automatically write-over that attempted
change.
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