Autonomic Computing

Microsoft—Dynamic Systems Initiative

In Redmond, Washington on March 18, 2003, Microsoft Corp. announced their Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI). This initiative proposes to unify hardware, software, and service vendors around a software architecture that enables customers to harness the power of industry-standard hardware, and brings simplicity, automation, and flexibility to IT operations. The dynamic systems enabled by this software promise to streamline IT operations and lower costs for the enterprise datacenter and make datacenter capabilities accessible to a much broader array of businesses. The unifying software architecture centers on a System Definition Model (SDM) embedded in operating systems, which provides a common contract between ...