Autonomic Alliance with Cisco

We briefly discussed the alliance between IBM and Cisco in Chapter 3. IBM and Cisco are collaborating on a set of open software technologies designed to increase the end-to-end intelligence and responsiveness of the global IT infrastructure—representing a major advancement in the development of “self-healing” computing systems and networks. IBM and Cisco are working on a set of proposed technologies and standards creating a common language to detect, log, and resolve system problems.

Cisco started developing its own version of autonomic computing and called it the Adaptive Services Framework (ASF). It soon became apparent to senior Cisco management that there was a good deal of synergy and overlap with IBM's autonomic ...

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