- 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
Introduction
In this chapter, we shall review some examples of autonomic products and their applications. This will illustrate the benefits and advantages of autonomic computing, which is in use today, not just in commercial enterprises, but in other industries, such as space exploration, where autonomic software has been under development for over five years.
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