Trends in System Operations
With rapidly changing computer technology and the growth of the Internet, the duties of the system operator are becoming increasingly complex. New hardware platforms, new software products, and a larger number of systems and networks to manage make it difficult for system operators to rely on manual tools to do their jobs. Automation is clearly needed. For many tasks, the operator is already relying on software automation. For example, system backups used to be done with primitive commands; now there are sophisticated software packages such as Hewlett-Packard's OmniBack II and Legato's NetWorker that are commonly used to simplify and automate the task of backing up a system or set of systems.
A number of trends in ...
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