Autonomic Computing

Skills Management for Autonomic Computing

Although the purpose of autonomic computing is to implement self-managing systems while at the same time hiding the complexity, its purpose is not to exclude IT people entirely. The stated aim here is to reduce the need for IT staff to work on the mundane, but necessary, tasks of supporting, configuring, and maintaining the systems themselves. These are necessary tasks that can be automated.

It will not be possible in the next 20 years for IT people to be eliminated entirely from managing autonomic or any other technology. Therefore those staff chosen to be responsible for the management of autonomic computing systems must acquire the necessary skills to be successful. Corporations must not neglect the ...