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 ...

Servers are increasingly difficult to manage, while their total cost of ownership continues to rise. The availability of enterprise IT servers does not rival that of telecommunications switching ...

IT management has matured and evolved significantly since the computer became a business tool, but as fast as it has matured, the capacity and capabilities of the underlying systems has matured faster ...

From his position as the chief technology officer for Red Hat Inc., Chris Wright (pictured) can see a future when self-tuning platforms will scale as the need grows. This is autonomic computing or ...

BANGALORE: The advent of computers brought in sophistication, which considerably reduced human labour. Now, the new buzz word - autonomic computing - may do away with human intervention completely.

A datacenter with a mind of its own — or more accurately, a brain stem of its own that would regulate the datacenter equivalents of heart rate, body temperature, and so on. That’s the wacky notion IBM ...

An industry blueprint showing how software, hardware, and standards work together in autonomic computing systems is expected to be discussed during IBM’s developerWorks Live conference next week in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...