SAME SOUP—DIFFERENT FLAVOR True to its technological roots, the new self-managing industry, press and vendors have come up with a plethora of different names for autonomic computing and related technologies. This is likely to cause confusion to management and end users alike. There is a case for standardization here before the industry becomes mature. Below are a few examples. -
Adaptive Enterprise— Cap Gemini Ernst & Young -
Dynamic Systems Initiative— Microsoft -
e-Business on Demand— IBM -
Autonomic Computing— IBM -
N1— Sun Microsystems -
On-Demand Computing— EDS -
Organic IT— Forrester Research -
Policy-Based Computing— Gartner -
Real-Time Enterprise— Gartner -
Utility Data Center (UDC)— Hewlett-Packard |