Autonomic Computing

What Happens if It Does Not Change?

What if the unthinkable happens, and we do not adopt autonomic computing or similar technology? This nightmarish scenario hardly bears consideration.

Mixtures of the following events will happen with different severity.

1. Complexity will continue to increase, reaching unmanageable proportions.

2. Further pressures will increase on IT staff to fix unfixable problems.

3. Reliability of systems and performance will deteriorate. Businesses will suffer.

4. Corporations will lose their competitive edge and lose substantial markets and profits.

5. Corporations will be required to increase their IT budgets to astronomical proportions.

6. Senior management will reject these astronomical budget requests—the cycle of problems will continue. ...