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Self-Management–The Defining Attribute of Next-Gen Architectures

By Mohana Krishna BG and Sangeetha S

The complexity crisis arising from the need to deploy, configure and adapt highly distributed, heterogeneous systems with a large number of complex elements to be resilient and resistant to changes, threats and failures - internal and environmental – in order to sustain guaranteed levels of service delivery has been a rapidly growing challenge. Further, it has the real potential of turning into a nightmare with the ever-increasing mission critical applications they serve and by the mobility and ubiquity requirements of the emerging genre of systems that live and operate in uncertain, or even hostile, environments. It becomes prohibitively ...

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