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Autonomic computing

A datacenter with a mind of its own -- or more accurately, a brain stem to regulate the datacenter equivalents of heart rate, body temperature, and so on. That's the whacky notion IBM proposed when it unveiled its autonomic computing initiative in 2001. Since then, virtualization has stolen much of the initiative's value-prop thunder, leaving many to wonder whether any enterprise would really want a datacenter with reptilian rule over itself.

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