Silver Team

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Silver Team

• Alleviate Cost and Complexity
• Value propitiation
• Focus on the long term return, treat migration
  costs separately
• Must provide auditability (its all about trust
  human must be able to observe processes)
• Mining self-learning
• Disaster recovery
• Embed Solutions so that they install smoothly
  with product (and dont need to be turned off)
• Inhibitors
• Readiness of the business to adopt the technology
• Maturity and state of technology
• Inability to adapt to business goals
• Deployment of technology
• How easy it is to adopt
• Skills and retraining
• Not one model fits all (customization and
  plugability)
• Mistrust/Low confidence level or perceived threat
  from automated process
• Most Promising
• Not a single approach but a mixture of matured
  technologies to meet business goals

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More themes

• Actuarial approach to cost of availability
  management, maintenance, etc.
• Soft vs hard budget items
• Cultural change for operators trade performance
  for manageability
• Cultural change for developers instrumentation
  vs. debugging statementes
• Standardized metrics, benchmarks data sets
• Many other subfields have them, why not
  autonomic?
• Real, annotated datasets from production
  environments sorely needed
• Understanding concerns of customer both
  technical business
• Operator trust autonomic features dont work if
  operators turn them off
• Focus on working with operators, not replacing
  them