Policy Technologies for Self-Managing Systems

IT policies can be used to guide and automate decision making in the management of computer and network infrastructure, helping IT organizations reduce costs, improve service quality, and enhance business agility. Now, a team of top IBM researchers introduces the latest innovations in policies and autonomic computing and demonstrates how to put them to work in your organization.

Dakshi Agrawal and Kang-Won Lee, research staff members at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center's Policy Networking Department, co-developed the Policy Management Toolkit for IBM Autonomic Computing and applied it to configuration management of storage area networks Seraphin Calo currently manages the Policy Technologies group at IBM Research Jorge Lobo joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2004 after serving as principal architect at Teltier Technologies (now Cisco) Dinesh Verma manages the Networking Technologies group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His books include Policy Based Networking and Supporting Service Level Agreements on IP Networks