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ReneeGiffroy posted on Tue, Jul 19 2011 5:06 AM

Autonomic is a word that is increasing being used to describe the ultimate in ease of use of data storage equipment with “autonomic tiering” having recently come into vogue. However, despite there being a plethora of tiering solutions available not all of them are as autonomic as they claim.

My first recollection of the use of the word in an IT context was IBM’s Self-Managing Autonomic Technology which they describe as enabling a fluid response to change like having the ability to manage themselves and dynamically adapt to change such as identifying and correcting problems often before they are noticed by IT personnel. In the context of a tiered storage solution this means the transparent movement of data between tiers with little or no human intervention.

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Mary Hall replied on Tue, Jul 19 2011 5:14 AM

There's a good article in eWeek about Autonomic Computing. To quote the article, it says: autonomic tiering actually prevents problems from happening in the first place through a combination of business and operational intelligence, gained by a constant collection of data.

"At its optimum, autonomic tiering actually prevents problems from happening in the first place through a combination of business and operational intelligence, gained by a constant collection of data."

" IBM has championed the concept of autonomic computing for about a decade. Autonomic computing is a self-management mechanism for a system or systems that can make preprogrammed "decisions" for themselves to solve problems—then solve them very quickly—to keep the data center operational.

At its optimum, the process actually prevents problems from happening in the first place through a combination of business and operational intelligence, gained by a constant collection of data.

3PAR Adaptive Optimization follows this concept to enable high-end-type storage systems to achieve an efficient distribution of data over the application lifecycle—without needing intervention by an administrator. "

Click here to read the complete artlcle from eWeek about Autonomic Computing.

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