Autonomic Computing

Autonomic Computing—Why Now?

There are four answers to the question of how we know the time of autonomic computing has come:

1. Computing infrastructure and system complexity demands it.

2. The current business climate demands it.

3. The technology has evolved enough to deliver it.

4. We must act to prevent the situation becoming any worse.

First, computing systems continue to evolve to meet changing business needs. But process-based computing systems are more complex than any of the preceding paradigms. Dynamic process-based computing systems give corporations the ability to automate business processes and the flexibility to optimize and adapt processes according to their business needs. These systems interconnect all aspects of doing business and integrate ...