This paper will examine IBM's vision of the on demand operating environment. It will review the state of automation today and the need for systems to manage themselves. It will look at IBM's blueprint for automation and how automation can be used to solve the problems facing businesses now. It also will describe the critical role played by orchestration, which allows organizations to utilize resources most efficiently by proactively sensing and responding to peaks in demand and allocating IT resources based on business policy. It is such orchestration that allows organizations to move from inefficient just-in-case provisioning to automated just-in-time provisioning. Finally, this paper will introduce IBM's automation offerings.
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