Autonomic Computing
The increasing complexity of computing systems has motivated research on autonomic computing, which seeks to improve systems by decreasing human involvement in their operation. In other words, systems should manage themselves, with high-level guidance from humans .
In this sense, the concepts of autonomic computing inspire software technologies for data center automation, which may perform tasks such as: management of service levels of running applications; management of data center capacity; proactive disaster recovery; and automation of VM provisioning .
