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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What IBM calls "autonomic" computing is a response to the complexity that saps the potential productivity gains from the latest technology, said Alan Ganek, a 20-year IBM veteran who is vice president ...