Orchestrating Self-Managing Systems for Autonomic Computing: The Role of Standards

Thomas W Studwell

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2003)

Computing technology has progressed rapidly over the last several decades with implementations and applications that were unthinkable a decade ago now commonplace. The rate of progress, however, has brought its own cost. As large IT infrastructures grow more complex the cost of managing these systems has increased rapidly. As a result a greater percentage of the IT budget is going toward maintenance of the infrastructure rather than improving its benefit to the business.