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... possibility, maybe eight to 10 years in the future. So says Hiep Vuaong, chief technology officer at Net Integration Technologies Inc. in Markham, Ontario. His vision of true autonomous computing means, for example, that when IT adds a server to a network, the machine automatically detects where its resources will be best used, provisions itself, maintains continuous awareness of its condition and network, and adjusts itself accordingly. Vuaong says Nitix, as his company is called, is proposing its UniConf open-source tool (www.open.nit.ca/wiki) as a step toward true autonomous computing. UniConf does for network resources what LDAP did for end users on the network, Vuaong claims. He says IT can use UniConf to manage resources to minimize software conflicts when provisioning new systems, because the tool knows what works well with what. And what doesn't. Vuaong admits that the idea of a small Canadian company competing with the likes of IBM in the realm of autonomous computing might seem a tad quixotic. But he hopes Nitix's open-source approach gives it a distinct advantage over proprietary approaches.
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