Keynote Autonomic Computing Initiative

Abstract

Autonomic computing systems have the ability to manage themselves and dynamically adapt to change in accordance with business policies and objectives. Self-managing environments can perform such activities based on situations they observe or sense in the IT environment, rather than requiring IT professionals to initiate the tasks. Autonomic computing is important today because the cost of technology continues to decrease yet overall IT costs do not. With the expense challenges that many companies face, IT managers are looking for ways to improve the return on investment of IT by reducing total cost of ownership, improving quality of service, accelerating time to value and managing IT complexity. The presentation will outline where IBM comes from with its autonomic computing initiative and what has been achieved to date.