Kenneth C. Laudon,Jane P. Laudon Management Information System 12th Edition pdf

Autonomic computing

is an

industry-wide effort to develop systems that can configure themselves,

optimize and tune themselves, heal themselves when broken, and protect

themselves from outside intruders and self-destruction.

You can glimpse a few of these capabilities in desktop systems. For instance,

virus and firewall protection software are able to detect viruses on PCs,

automatically defeat the viruses, and alert operators. These programs can be

updated automatically as the need arises by connecting to an online virus

protection service such as McAfee. IBM and other vendors are starting to build

autonomic features into products for large systems.

HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND POWER-SAVING

PROCESSORS

Another way to reduce power requirements and hardware sprawl is to use more

efficient and power-saving processors. Contemporary microprocessors now

feature multiple processor cores (which perform the reading and execution of

computer instructions) on a single chip. A