Nerds on Site test-drives Symbium's network card

摘要

A Canadian firm is hoping to take traditional system management software a step further by offering a network card that can not only alert administrators to network problems but fix them. Symbium Corp. in Ottawa made its debut this week with its first product, the Intelligent Secure Automatic Controller (ISAC). Based on an embedded computer that fits like a network card into a host server's PCI slot, ISAC uses a policy-based software engine to perform fault recovery, root cause analyses, unauthorized software/task blocking and scheduled automation of preventative maintenance routines.