Finished Autonomic Computing talk. Morris defines an interesting concept of 'IT resources on demand', and sets a challenge to software/hardware developrs to create management systems across hetrogenius systems from many vendors. StorageTank, in development by IBM, will allow an IT manager to define the required availability, security, performance and backup for a storage array via metadata management. A uniform name space is then presented to all clients, and the system manages the resources to satisify the stated goals automatically.

There was also mention of building a goal orientated recovery systems, instead of bespoke scripts, in the case of failure. It would use a finite-state machine (auto-generated) to define a path from the system's present state to a final state in a number of steps. This is non-trivial to implement.