Autonomic Computing

Who Is Using Autonomic Computing Today?

Many CIOs will ask this question and want the answer before proceeding with the introduction of autonomic computing. There is a need to analyze and map the existing five levels to existing IBM customer environments to determine who is where in the level structure. IBM conducted an internal study of all its customers to determine the autonomic scope in 2004 would be:

• 35 percent are at level 1, Basic

• 27 percent are at level 2, Managed

• 22 percent are at level 3, Predictive

• 14 percent are at level 4, Adaptive

• 2 percent are at level 5, Autonomic

Beginning in 2004, the introduction of autonomic computing will increase by at least 15% a year, as customers move up through the autonomic computing value ladder. The highest ...