IBM Paves the Way for Mainstream Adoption of Autonomic Computing

IBM Paves the Way for Mainstream Adoption of Autonomic Computing

IBM today unveiled first-of-a-kind self-managing autonomic technology to help customers simplify their IT systems and reduce labor costs for maintaining them. The new offerings will help software developers automate business processes and embed self-managing autonomic features within their applications.

The two new technologies, IBM’s Policy Management for Autonomic Computing and the IBM Touchpoint Simulator, allow developers to simplify the development and management of their autonomic systems and products. The Touchpoint Simulator is the first offering in the autonomic tool space that allows developers to build and test their own autonomic components.

Since introducing the concept of autonomic computing in 2001, IBM has paved the way for mainstream adoption. Today, IBM has woven more than 475 autonomic features into more than 75 distinct products, making it the broadest portfolio of autonomic-enabled products, services and solutions in the industry. The company also announced that over the past year, more than 60 business partners around the world have adopted core IBM self-managing autonomic technology to help customers transition to on demand business.

According to Alan Ganek, vice president, Autonomic Computing and CTO Tivoli Software, IBM, “Most organizations today manage large and complex IT environments, and while the cost of technology has dropped, spending on management and administration continues to rise. Self-managing autonomic technology can enable systems to automatically tune themselves, sense and respond to changes, and prevent and recover from outages in the IT environment — lessening the burden on IT professionals to initiate and handle those tasks.”

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