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Thursday, April 03, 2003
Servers That Heal Themselves - Vincent Ryan, NewsFactor Network
IT executives have embraced self-healing features for numerous reasons. "IT budgets continue to be pressed, and IT managers are looking for ways to handle a broader range of servers with less resources," IBM's Jeff Benck explained. The phrase "self-healing server" has an almost spiritual ring to it. Few IT marketing promises sound as appealing as this one, and IBM is spending a lot of money to make sure it sticks in the head of IT administrators. But are self-healing servers all they are cracked up to be? Can IT administrators really head to the golf course with full confidence that if a server goes down, they will receive timely pager notification? And how important is it to have servers with self-healing powers?
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