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OVERVIEW
THE BENEFITS
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Autonomic computing was conceived to lessen the spiraling demands for skilled I/T resources, reduce complexity and to drive computing into a new era that may better exploit its potential to support higher order thinking and decision making.
Immediate benefits will include reduced dependence on human intervention to maintain complex systems accompanied by a substantial decrease in costs. Long-term benefits will allow individuals, organizations and businesses to collaborate on complex problem solving.
Short-term I/T related benefits
Simplified user experience through a more responsive, real-time system.
Cost-savings - scale to use.
Scaled power, storage and costs that optimize usage across both hardware and software.
Full use of idle processing power, including home PC's, through networked system.
Natural language queries allow deeper and more accurate returns.
Seamless access to multiple file types. Open standards will allow users to pull data from all potential sources by re-formatting on the fly.
Stability. High availability. High security system. Fewer system or network errors due to self-healing.
Long-term, Higher Order Benefits
Realize the vision of enablement by shifting available resources to higher-order business.
Embedding autonomic capabilities in client or access devices, servers, storage systems, middleware, and the network itself. Constructing autonomic federated systems.
Achieving end-to-end service level management.
Collaboration and global problem-solving. Distributed computing allows for more immediate sharing of information and processing power to use complex mathematics to solve problems.
Massive simulation - weather, medical - complex calculations like protein folding, which require processors to run 24/7 for as long as a year at a time.
THE 8 ELEMENTS 
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