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Q: What happened to Project eLiza?
A: In a self-configuring transformation of historical proportions, eLiza of IBM self-managing IT infrastructure fame, is now known as the IBM autonomic computing initiative. This remarkable display of self- optimization comes at a time when IBM, in collaboration with customers, the open community and other vendors is taking the lead in delivering on the promise of next generation e-business computing. Rather than taking the narrow self-protecting, self-preserving view, eLiza, is taking the ultimate step in dynamically adapting to changes in business policies by surrendering its initial code name to one that is more universally understood and appreciated. In moving on, eLiza leaves a self-healing legacy for devoted fans, who understand how to take corrective action and move on without disrupting ongoing processes. All hail Autonomic Computing!
Q: Why do we need self-managing servers?
A: Autonomic computing addresses a looming crisis in the business world -- in five years, given the rapid proliferation of technology and the growing shortage of trained systems administrators, the majority of corporations will not be able to manage their systems using the current computing technologies. Autonomic computing goal is to give businesses the ability to manage systems and technology infrastructures that are hundreds of times more complex than those in existence today.
Q: Are we delivering any self-managing capabilities today?
A: Yes, even as we launch this initiative, we are already delivering self-managing technologies to our customers. Examples include:
- Intelligent Resource Director, which automatically allocates resources for multiple jobs according to demand.
- Clustering, which updates software and manages workloads across massive clusters with a single operation.
- Chipkill technology, which is used in our mainframes to virtually eliminate memory failures, and is now available on other IBM
eServer™® as well.
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