  January 2006 IBM employees use the corporate intranet portal -- or set of applications -- to work, collaborate, and learn in an On Demand Workplace. (See the On Demand Workplace series for more information about this environment.) The intranet portal is based on a dynamic infrastructure and provides profiled delivery of content and access to new tools and applications -- all to help employees to manage workflow, to collaborate, and to gain knowledge. The intranet portal is a framework in which many business-critical applications are aggregated using IBM WebSphere® Portal, WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD), IBM Tivoli®, and IBM DB2®Information Management products. The infrastructure for the IBM intranet handles high volumes of traffic, averaging 30 million requests a day. Company-wide applications share common services and hosting, with special dedicated systems for high volume and critical applications. What's the most efficient use of resources to accommodate this On Demand Workplace? In this series, you learn how the IBM intranet portal team significantly improves the IBM internal enterprise applications infrastructure by implementing autonomic computing technology. You'll review the problems to be solved, the proposed solutions, and how and why the team deployed the features of WebSphere XD to achieve their goals. Take advantage of the lessons learned by the team from applying autonomic computing architecture, deploying WebSphere XD, and using design patterns to enable an application to protect, optimize, and reconfigure itself. Link to project implementation.
For a broad view of the autonomic computing landscape, read "An architectural blueprint for autonomic computing."
To discover how autonomic computing is molding the vision for future IT shops, read Ric Telford on the state of autonomic computing today: The challenges of developing with, and for, next-generation autonomic systems.
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