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IBM LAST WEEK announced systems management software designed to reduce server downtime by automatically predicting failures in IBM's eServer xSeries servers, which are based on Intel processors.
The IBM Director software includes a feature that predicts when failures will occur and automatically repairs them before they happen, said Tom Bradicich, director of architecture and technology for eServer xSeries servers at IBM, in Armonk, N.Y. IBM Director is the successor to Netfinity Director 2.12, and Netfinity servers are now called eServer xSeries.
The key feature of IBM Director is its capability of predicting a problem by monitoring the behavior of the server for symptoms in critical components, such as processors, disks, and memory, that indicate a crash is imminent, according to Bradicich.
"With this technology, the systems administrator will now be able to [be...