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VISION
AUTONOMIC VISION & MANIFESTO
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The Vision:
Systems manage themselves according to an administrator's goals. New components integrate as effortlessly as a new cell establishes itself in the human body. These ideas are not science fiction, but elements of the grand challenge to create self-managing computing systems.
Copyright 2003 IEEE. Reprinted from Computer magazine, January 2003.
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The Manifesto:
The information technology boom can only explode for so long before it collapses on itself in a jumble of wires, buttons and knobs. IBM knows that increasing processor might, storage capacity and network connectivity must report to some kind of systemic a uthority if we expect to take advantage of its potential. The human body's self-regulating nervous system presents an excellent model for creating the next gen eration of computing, autonomic computing.
To that end IBM invites the world, our customers, competitors and colleagues to accept the Grand Challenge of building and deploying computing systems that regulate themselves and remove complexity from the lives of administrators and users.
This document is a call to action, created with the input of scientists and industry experts in the IBM Research headquarters in New York. Published in October of 2001, it contains an overview of autonomic computing systems along with their eight defining characteristics. In it you will find examples of this concept at work in the real world. In other words, it demonstrates how autonomic computing will affect you and the world of business.
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