Autonomic Computing

Complexity In IT

One of the most difficult challenges facing IT organizations today is ensuring alignment with business objectives in terms of quality, flexibility, initial cost, and time to market. In computing, opportunity breeds complexity. Moreover, complexity begets systems that can be unreliable and difficult to manage. In most medium to large-sized IT organizations, there are now numerous applications and environments that weigh in at tens of millions of lines of code, and they require substantially skilled IT professionals to install, configure, tune, debug, upgrade, and generally maintain them. This means that the difficulty of managing today's computing systems goes well beyond the administration of individual software environments. ...