WHEN IBM REBRANDED eLiza last month, she was given a cute send-off. “In a self-configuring transformation of historical proportions,” the announcement read, “Project eLiza of IBM self-managing IT ...

IBM is stepping up its efforts to create computers that can think on their own so that humans can contemplate more important things. The company on Monday plans to announce that it has established a ...

IBM's Alan Ganek wants to evolve computing infrastructures to be as self-regulating as the human body's autonomic nervous system. "There is a business necessity to reduce the complexity and expense of ...

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 ...

Big Blue packages up the results of its research into self-managing systems with an open-source toolkit that plugs into the Eclipse development set of software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Microsoft last week detailed a software architecture that helps corporate and third-party developers create applications with autonomic capabilities that are designed to take advantage of existing IT ...

IBM's push to create systems that can manage themselves is moving from the drawing board to the commercial development community. The company plans to release on Monday an open-source toolkit that ...