IBM is releasing its Autonomic Computing Zone, an online
information resource featuring daily and weekly
updates.
Autonomic Computing Zone is intended to help customers,
developers and ISVs learn skills needed for implementing autonomic
environments for business transformation. IBM positions autonomic
technology as enabling self-managing computing systems.
Featured in the Zone are daily and weekly updates of articles,
tutorials, news, tools, products, and events. A user forum also is
highlighted, as is a self-assessment section that covers autonomic
"maturity" levels.
Autonomic Computing Zone constitutes an upgrade of the Autonomic
Computing Resource Center, which featured the Autonomic Computing
Toolkit, which is an Eclipse-based toolset for designing and
testing autonomic systems as well as several downloads for building
autonomic computing systems. The toolkit was downloaded nearly
3,000 times in the first two weeks, according to IBM.
The Zone provides a tour of autonomic computing, demonstrates
concepts, and discusses tools available in the Autonomic Computing
Toolkit. It also offers an autonomic computing roadmap and a
self-assessment regarding autonomic computing.
IBM will hold free autonomic computing seminars worldwide from
April to November.
Attendees at the full-day seminars will get an overview of
autonomic computing and core technologies, including details on
problem determination, solution change management, and integrated
solutions console technologies. They also will be provided with
information on monitoring distributed workloads and steps to take
to move to an autonomic environment.
Paul Krill writes for InfoWorld