Forecasting is hard-especially when it's about the future. IBM is proposing to change all that with three new autonomic software technologies that it planned to unveil today and demonstrate at next week's CeBit trade show, in Hannover, Germany.

The three technologies - Adaptive Forecasting, On-line Capacity Planning and Rapid Reconfiguration - are designed to predict sudden increases in workload and to respond by bringing on additional server capacity and dynamically reconfiguring DB2 database parameters.

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