Programs crash, people make mistakes, networks grow and change. That¿s life, and computer scientists are finally building systems that can deal with it Computer hardware increases in speed and ...

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IBM has been talking about autonomic computer--the Holy Grail of self-regulating IT, as in the way the nervous system regulates and protects the human body autonomically--since the beginning of the ...

IBM coined the term autonomic computing in 2001 and since then has been beating the automation drum across its software and hardware product lines. The premise of a self-healing, self-protecting, self ...

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IBM's Alan Ganek wants to evolve computing infrastructures to be as self-regulating as the human body's autonomic nervous system. "There is a business necessity to reduce the complexity and expense of ...

Big Blue is serving up further details of software designed to help businesses better use computing resources--an important piece of its autonomic computing initiative. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

iSeries already has some key pieces of IBM’s autonomic computing vision under its hood, including several self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, and self-optimizing technologies. Autonomic ...

For the past few years, Alan Ganek has led IBM's efforts in autonomic computing, which is designed to automate many tasks associated with system and network management. More recently, Ganek added CTO ...

Developers at large corporations sometimes have to slow down the implementation of code because of issues in deploying applications. That's one reason IBM wants to make it easier for developers to ...

Is autonomic computing an idea whose time has come? Or is it still in the realm of fantasy? EMA is in the process of answering these questions with multi-year research projects. Our 2006 research into ...