March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 32m
English
Any corporation can greatly increase its responsiveness to both customers and employees by utilizing the autonomic capabilities of self-configuring systems. With this facility in place, systems can dynamically adjust and configure themselves to adapt to a changing environment. This can be achieved with the minimum of human intervention. The deployment of changes can take place rapidly with no disruption of service to customers. The periodic swings in business cycles are a prime example. Take the retail sector during holiday seasons. Peaks are experienced at different times at the end of the year. The self-configuring infrastructure can be automatically adjusted to reassign servers to cope with the loads. It seeks out resources ...