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Autonomic Approach to IT Infrastructure Management in a Virtual Computing Lab Environment
White Papers This paper describes a process manager: to help manage IT resources more effectively by providing conflict identification when providing resource reservations with QoS guarantees to end users; to support change management for IT staff that perform...
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
IBM opens up on 'self-optimising' software
News IBM is offering up further details of software designed to help businesses better use computing resources -- an important piece of its autonomic computing initiative. With IBM's forthcoming software, "you can provision a normal amount and, with the...
[March 7, 2003, 10:03]
IBM spearheads drive for smoother software configuration
News The XML-based specification, known as the Solution Installation for Autonomic Computing, was written by IBM, Novell, and installation software companies InstallShield Software and Zero G Software. The installation technology in the specification is...
[July 16, 2004, 9:15]
IBM's self-managing systems shift closer to reality
News The Autonomic Computing Toolkit will be offered at IBM's DeveloperWorks Web site as a free add-on to the Eclipse development environment. Previously, Big Blue has used AlphaWorks, its site for prototype software, as the venue for the release of...
[February 16, 2004, 8:35]
Microsoft software to manage itself?
News This is Microsoft's answer to IBM's autonomic computing, Sun's N1 and Hewlett-Packard's adaptive infrastructure," said Gartner analyst Tom Bittman. Similar "autonomic" computing initiatives have also been launched by Microsoft's closest rivals, IBM...
[March 14, 2003, 16:41]
IBM to unveil new Web services tools
News Some of this version's additions include broad support for Web services standards and new autonomic computing features -- technology for creating computing systems that can configure, tune and repair themselves.
[November 25, 2002, 8:13]
IBM targets smaller developers
News IBM will also introduce a programme to encourage partners to use its autonomic computing software, which is designed to reduce the amount of manual labour needed to manage computers. In conjunction with a recently-introduced blueprint for autonomic...
[April 10, 2003, 8:39]
Software heals systems while they work
News IBM, one of the earliest proponents of so-called autonomic computing -- or the science of creating computing systems that can configure, tune and repair themselves -- earlier this month announced it was opening a hub for research and product...
[November 1, 2002, 8:17]
IBM helps computers that help themselves
News But IBM is not the only company working on autonomic computing projects. The company on Monday announced it has established a new Autonomic Computing group, which will act as Big Blue's hub for research and product development in autonomic computing.
[October 21, 2002, 8:07]
IBM reveals automation blueprint
News IBM also will provide software that addresses the most important components of autonomic computing, the company's term for systems that need little human intervention to run and maintain. With the blueprint and early software tools, IBM is trying...
[April 4, 2003, 8:08]
IBM leads charge on holistic computing
News In IBM's view, autonomic computing systems must follow four principles. The technology giant is launching a major push within the industry and academia toward autonomic computing, the science of creating computing systems that can configure, tune...
[April 12, 2002, 11:24]
IBM To Create The Great Brain Thinking Machine.
Blog Comment Big Blue has an interesting "Autonomic Computing" resource at http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/ I've met the guys who talk about this stuff and it's interesting (I hope) to learn that they way they talk about self-healing systems kind of...
[November 25, 2008, 14:13]
IT Service Management Standards: A Reference Model for Open Standards-Based ITSM Solutions
White Papers The paper presents an overview of ITSM, including underlying elements such as ITIL and autonomic computing; an architecture for the realization of ITSM; many of the key standards - existing, emerging and yet to be developed - that are relevant to...
[April 21, 2007, 1:00]
Autonomic Virtual Machine Placement in the Data Center
White Papers By closely monitoring virtual machine activity and employing advanced policies for dynamic workload placement, such an autonomic solution can achieve substantial cost savings from better utilization of computing resources and less frequent...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
Exploring Infrastructure Management Buzzwords, Trends, and Concepts
White Papers This webcast presents a brief overview of infrastructure management history, examining the business and technology drivers for management change and clarifying some of the more important concepts and jargon such as business service management...
[May 4, 2006, 10:17]
Sun's blades will virtualise Solaris
News N1, like IBM's "autonomic computing" and HP's "utility datacentre", is intended to let IT managers apply the level of computing, storage and network resources required for each application, without having to manually reconfigure resources.
[December 11, 2002, 9:57]
Sun's N1 gets storage management
News The datacentre automation initiative competes with similar efforts from rivals such as IBM, with its autonomic computing plan, and Hewlett-Packard, with its Utility Data Center. Sun Microsystems is getting ready to unveil on Tuesday the storage...
[April 8, 2003, 9:50]
IBM to automate storage control
News Big Blue will increase the automation features in the future as part of its autonomic computing initiative, the company said. The new features are designed to make it easier for administrators to manage storage systems in corporate computing...
[October 4, 2002, 9:38]
IBM sustains patent dominance
News IBM's 2003 patent crop reflects the company's ongoing "autonomic computing" initiative to make computing systems self-managing and more automated. The computing giant said the US Patent and Trademark Office granted it 3,415 patents, marking the...
[January 12, 2004, 7:35]
Patents a virtue for IBM
News Many of the company's newest patents are related to servers; grid computing; and self-healing, or autonomic, computers and how to better put them to use for customers. The computing on demand initiative seeks to provide self-organising, self...
[January 13, 2003, 7:44]
