Autonomic attack plans

摘要

Whenever a new technology or methodology seems poised to shake up enterprise IT, vendors hustle to spin the phenomenon in their direction. One such concept has been the self-managing data center, often referred to as "autonomic computing" the term IBM favors. Here, the goal is to design and implement systems that monitor themselves, repair themselves as necessary protect themselves from external threats and even re-route their own resources to best meet business needs. (That last factor echoes the promise of another red-hot phenomenon, on-demand — or utility — computing.) Of course, the road to this data-center Utopia is not yet smoothly paved. But leading vendors are working hard at filling the potholes and, simultaneously making their names synonymous with self-managing computing. We look at HP, IBM and Microsoft as they struggle to differentiate themselves and gather mind-share in the self-managing data center.