Autonomic Computing

Preface

The term and technology of autonomic computing is unfamiliar to most IT people. However, it will become familiar and understood after reading this book. Today, IT organizations are faced with the growing challenge of supporting the needs of the corporate enterprise with a reduced budgets and persistent or growing computing demands. For many enterprises, the challenge is compounded by complex architectures and distributed computing infrastructures that were developed over the last 20 years. This situation has caused system management costs to escalate while budgets and corporate spending are shrinking.

CIOs and CTOs everywhere are now tasked with reducing the costs of the IT organization while continuing to support the ongoing and growing ...