Programs crash, people make mistakes, networks grow and change. That¿s life, and computer scientists are finally building systems that can deal with it Computer hardware increases in speed and ...

Servers are increasingly difficult to manage, while their total cost of ownership continues to rise. The availability of enterprise IT servers does not rival that of telecommunications switching ...

IBM is stepping up its efforts to create computers that can think on their own, so that humans can contemplate more important things. The company on Monday plans to announce that it has established a ...

An industry blueprint showing how software, hardware, and standards work together in autonomic computing systems is expected to be discussed during IBM’s developerWorks Live conference next week in ...

For the past few years, Alan Ganek has led IBM's efforts in autonomic computing, which is designed to automate many tasks associated with system and network management. More recently, Ganek added CTO ...

IBM coined the term autonomic computing in 2001 and since then has been beating the automation drum across its software and hardware product lines. The premise of a self-healing, self-protecting, self ...

Is autonomic computing an idea whose time has come? Or is it still in the realm of fantasy? EMA is in the process of answering these questions with multi-year research projects. Our 2006 research into ...