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 ...

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 ...