- Copyright
- IBM Press Series—Information Management
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Autonomic Beginnings
- Autonomic Attributes and the Grand Challenge
- Introduction
- Definitions
- A Quick Guide to the Human Autonomic Nervous System
- E-Business On Demand
- Autonomic Computing Elements
- Self-Configuring
- Self-Optimizing
- Self-Healing
- Self-Protecting
- Open Standards
- Autonomic Computing—Why Now?
- Is Autonomic Computing New?
- What Happens if It Does Not Change?
- Creating the Autonomic Culture
- Why Is a Culture Important?
- Is Autonomic Computing Working Today?
- Same Soup—Different Flavor
- Summary and Conclusions
- Notes
- Complexity—In All Its Forms
- Introduction
- Some Examples of Our Complex Society
- Cartoons Are Simple
- Software Complexity and Disasters
- What Is Complexity?
- A Complexity Case Study—IBM
- IBM Transformation—A Summary of Results
- Complexity In IT
- Simplifying the IT Infrastructure
- Autonomic Computing: One Answer to Complexity
- Complexity—The Enemy of CIOs
- IT Complexity Transformation
- The Cost of IT Complexity
- Corporate Complexity Assessment
- Goals
- Infrastructure Assessments
- Summary and Conclusions
- Recommended Reading
- Notes
- Autonomic Products and Applications
- Autonomic Attributes and the Grand Challenge
- Industry Demand
- The IT Industry—An Engine of Growth and Opportunity
- Fast and Faster
- Human Capital
- Introduction
- U.S. Population Growth and Employment Trends
- Occupation Growth
- The Dynamics of the IT Labor Market
- Origins of IT Staff Shortages
- High-Tech Visas and Legislation
- Costs of the IT Recruitment Crisis
- Current IT Unemployment
- IT Skills Development
- Keys to a Successful Skills Management Endeavor
- Skills Management for Autonomic Computing
- Summary and Conclusions
- Notes
- The New Agenda—E-Business On Demand
- Introduction
- E-Business on Demand Challenges
- E-Business on Demand Operating Environment
- The Emergence of the E-Business on Demand Enterprise
- A Brief History of E-Business on Demand
- E-Business on Demand, a Case Study—Teinos
- The New Reality: E-Business on Demand Is Here to Stay
- What the New Agenda Requires
- Summary and Conclusions
- Autonomic Computing—More Detail
- AC Architectures
- Autonomic Computing and Open Standards
- Introduction
- A Brief History of Open Standards
- A Case for Open Standards—Department of Homeland Security
- Types of Standards—Proprietary Versus Open
- Web Services Interoperability Standards Organization
- Important Standards for Autonomic Computing
- New Standards for Autonomic Computing
- Open Standards and the IBM Portfolio
- The E-Business on Demand Service Provider Business
- Summary and Conclusions
- Notes
- Autonomic Implementation Considerations
- Grid Computing—An Enabling Technology
- Autonomic Development Tools
- Introduction
- The IBM Emerging Technologies Toolkit
- Autonomic Computing and Open Source
- The IBM Commitment to Open Source
- Autonomic Computing with Open Source
- Problem Determination—A Log and Trace Analyzer for Autonomic Computing
- Heterogeneous Workload Management: Business Workload Manager Prototype
- The Solution Enabler
- Software Agents
- Autonomic Agent Technology
- Summary and Conclusions
- Note
- Independent Software Vendors
- Challenging Times for Software Vendors
- The New ISV Agenda
- ISVS Drive the Autonomic Marketplace
- Early Adopters and IBM
- A Sample List of ISVs
- Tools and Templates
- Autonomic Computing Business Partner Initiative
- Autonomic Alliance with Cisco
- The Acquisition of Think Dynamics
- Summary and Conclusions
- Notes
- Other Vendors
- The Tivoli Management Suite—Autonomic Features
- AC Markets and the Future
- Glossary of Autonomic Terms
- Index
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