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Article: Vendors say all companies can have systems that manage themselves.(AUTONOMIC COMPUTING)
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- Manufacturing Business Technology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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The appearance of autonomic computing solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs) may be the signal that this technology is shaking its pie-in-the sky image. Championed by IBM, autonomic computing is an approach to self-managed systems.
Ric Telford, IBM's VP for autonomic computing, acknowledges the concept often is perceived as futuristic, despite its practical nature. "Autonomic computing is a fancy way of saying there is a set of technologies that makes IT systems--servers, PCs, or databases--more self-managing;' says Telford.
The term is derived from the body's autonomic nervous system, which automatically regulates functions like heartbeat. ...