COMMENTARY--Unanswerable questions of our time, number one: If you're so smart, why ain't you rich? And number two: If your new PC's so much better than your old one, how come it don't work properly?

Computer systems and networks that configure themselves to changing conditions. Autonomic computing often implies self healing in the event of failure. Autonomic means "automatic responses" to ...

Autonomic computing automates repetitive tasks and monitors service levels and availability, freeing IT staff to focus on more strategic projects. This will call for many of the same skill sets, but ...

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 ...

A datacenter with a mind of its own — or more accurately, a brain stem of its own that would regulate the datacenter equivalents of heart rate, body temperature, and so on. That’s the wacky notion IBM ...

IBM, Microsoft and HP set aside their rivalry Tuesday to share the stage at the first International Conference on Autonomic Computing in New York, at which representatives from the three companies ...

IBM on Tuesday will unveil its Autonomic Computing Zone, an online information resource featuring daily and weekly updates of information pertaining to autonomic computing. Autonomic Computing Zoneis ...

IBM's Alan Ganek wants to evolve computing infrastructures to be as self-regulating as the human body's autonomic nervous system. "There is a business necessity to reduce the complexity and expense of ...

Big Blue is serving up further details of software designed to help businesses better use computing resources--an important piece of its autonomic computing initiative. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

IBM Corp. launched an Autonomic Computing Toolkit on Monday, to help developers build self-healing computer systems. Based on the Eclipse open source framework, IBM’s autonomic toolkit will work with ...

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 ...