judith meskill - soc.media.rocks

Stacy Cowley writes for IDG News Service about IBM, HP and Microsoft talked autonomic strategies at the first International Conference on Autonomic Computing in New York earlier this week, mapping out fairly similar and harmonious strategies for working toward self-managing IT systems.
...IBM claims credit for coining the name "autonomic computing" three years ago, to describe its new focus on automation as the key to addressing the growing problem of computing infrastructure complexity. That initiative became a core element in the on-demand vision IBM unveiled in 2002, a campaign that prompted many other IT suppliers to craft similar strategies. HP calls its spin the "adaptive enterprise" strategy, while Microsoft spoke Tuesday of its Dynamic Systems Initiative...