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We have now explored the technology and strategy perspectives of autonomic computing. In this book, a full analysis and treatment of many topics of autonomic computing and its operating environment were provided. We have explored the fact that the autonomic computing journey is an evolution, not a revolution, or a temporary state of operations. We discussed that autonomic computing is a state of operational efficiencies, with concepts, methods, and techniques. Thereare a number of very successful technologies and strategies, along with products and services, which are available, today, to begin the transformation.

Autonomic computing is something that almost all major businesses, worldwide, will have to confront, sooner or later. This asks the question of whether you, as a business leader or a consumer of services, can see it clear enough. As a senior IT manager, do you feel or have you observed the strong industry pressures to transform? Or, do you feel the economic factors related to considering autonomic computing solutions and transformation activities for your enterprise?

Throughout this book, we have explored technical and strategic concepts that, in many cases go well beyond what those skilled in the traditional art of business operations have yet conceived or practiced. This new operational state of autonomic computing indeed requires a transformation, in many ways, inviting us all to continuously strive to achieve and maintain a new competitive edge. This includes tighter business partnerships intersecting with autonomic operations, new and innovative ways of thinking, and setting precedents for a new plateau of conducting business operations.

Consumers and Internet content providers are rapidly growing to expect more and more advanced services, when we want them—24/7—and exactly how we want them delivered. We also have a strong desire for more pervasive forms of conducting our daily lives utilizing a plurality of devices that are available in a multitude of form factors. We seem to desire to be continuously networked to these advanced services even with our appliances in our homes.

Conversely, global and in-country telecommunications firms delivering these services through "pipes" of a sort are working very diligently to bring the best and most advanced services to us. Likewise, business enterprises acting as service providers are striving to deliver the "killer applications" that we will all want to utilize in our everyday lives. Content providers are partnering with service providers to help them deliver the best possible forms of information to the general public. Technologies have become so complex that we are seeking a means for simplification. Autonomic computing is a state of achievement, not necessarily a plan of delivery.

Governments of the world and explorers of medicine, science, research, and academics are all trying to determine how best to leverage these types of powerful on demand services. As we have explored throughout the discussions in this book, some of the world's most powerful computing environments have been applied to the world's most difficult problems: cancer, smallpox, AIDS, and many more. As with any evolution, it is simply time itself that is required for us to see a whole New World of evolutionary business operations and cultural practices. Many of us see it now, and some of us have already achieved it, but this is not by any means a signal for us to become complacent.

The Internet continues to advance daily in the capabilities it provides our global societies. We are discovering ways in which to enhance our business positioning across the markets. Industries strive to increase time to markets and cut both operational and capital expenditures, while at the same time delivering enhanced forms of services. We are discovering ways in which to simplify our daily lives, and even ways in which to increase our efficiencies in schools as students—young and old alike. We now demand that all products and services deliver richer and more robust features than ever imagined. Why? Simply, because it is possible to deliver vast amounts of information—on demand.

Autonomic computing is an operational state of achievement, one that continues to refine itself each and every day: A transformation. These perspectives on technology and strategy alone will help to enable this new state of on demand operations. It is one that any business can ascertain, once one understands the points of entry and the values yielded from such a transformation. And so I pass the baton now to you, faithful reader of this book, and hope you will take the grand challenge we discussed earlier and adopt and transform your enterprise by implementing autonomic computing solutions. Regrettably, there is not much alternative, for to continue on the path of complexity will sentence us to a doomed future and ultimately chaos—which is unacceptable. Therefore, go forth and implement it!

One last thought:

It's time to design and build computing systems capable of running themselves, adjusting to varying circumstances and preparing their resources to handle most efficiently the workloads we put upon them. These autonomic systems must anticipate needs and allow users to concentrate on what they want to accomplish rather than figuring out how to rig the computing systems to get them there.

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Autonomic Computing
Autonomic Computing
ISBN: 013144025X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 254
Authors: Richard Murch

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