NEC today announced the development of AI technology that quickly and automatically updates critical systems without causing service interruption. NEC aims to commercialize this technology as an ICT system operation and administration software by next year.
Currently, in order to update systems for communications services and financial services without causing interruption, highly trained administrators have to create a complex set of procedures, taking into account the systems’ interdependence and function scalability. As a result, system updates take a great deal of time. With this latest technology, system administrators simply input the structure of a target system in order to quickly and automatically generate update procedures, without any need to interrupt service.
These update procedures meet the complex requirements for operating each component of a system, such as applications, middleware, virtual machines, and networks, automatically determining the appropriate series of actions required to migrate to a target status, added NEC.
Yuichi Nakamura, General Manager, System Platform Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
The creation of update procedures by a system administrator currently requires about one week, but with NEC’s AI technology, procedures can be created in a matter of minutes. As a result, security risks can be dealt with immediately and new services can be introduced swiftly to respond to customer needs.