The incredible pace of innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning is paving the way for an autonomous business model. For the first time, organizations see the possibility of a future where business operations and direction are governed by self-learning technologies, and where business leadership and management is largely driven by machines. In this world, an autonomous business can operate at unprecedented levels of speed, agility, and alignment. Autonomous enterprises can continuously adapt to changing customer demands and evolving markets, applying the right types of AI and automation across the entire customer journey.
Autonomic IT systems are the cornerstone of autonomous business, enabling organizations to increase productivity, responsiveness, and profitability. With an IT ecosystem that can monitor, optimize, and heal itself, businesses can better deliver on customer demands for always-on, always-mobile, and instantly available experiences.
For organizations that want to embrace the future of autonomous business today, the ScienceLogic AI Platform integrates generative AI, automation, and data capabilities to enable self-optimized IT environments.
What is autonomic IT?
The term “autonomic IT” is a nod to the human autonomic nervous system—the part of the body that automatically regulates functions like heart rate, breathing, and body temperature. Some of these functions like a beating heart work entirely on their own, while others are self-regulating but can respond dynamically to internal controls and external inputs—for example, taking a deep breath when the body needs more oxygen.
Autonomic IT regulates itself in response to stimuli in the same way. It can adapt and protect itself like a living organism. Autonomous systems can sense and analyze conditions and events, and they can understand and respond to changes in the IT environment in real time—or even before they occur. By assessing, remediating, and analyzing conditions automatically, autonomic IT systems significantly reduce the amount of manual intervention required from IT teams.
When organizations can integrate autonomic IT operations, they can innovate more quickly and drive value throughout the entire business. The cost to maintain healthy IT systems plummets. IT professionals can focus on strategic projects that profit the organization. Ultimately, autonomic IT enables businesses to become more proactive in innovating offerings, meeting customer demands, pivoting as conditions change, and competing for market share.
Autonomic IT powered by the ScienceLogic AI Platform
The ScienceLogic AI Platform provides modern IT operations with actionable insights to predict and resolve problems faster. It observes everything across multi-cloud and distributed architectures. It contextualizes data through relationship mapping, and acts on this insight through integration and automation. By removing the difficulty of managing complex, distributed IT services, the SL1 platform accelerates digital transformation.
Delivering global visibility, automation, advanced AI insights, and near limitless extensibility, ScienceLogic helps organizations move toward a self-healing, autonomic IT ecosystem. This enables operations teams to close visibility gaps, leverage uniform data, and quickly identify and resolve issues to enhance business performance and operational efficiency.
With autonomic IT enabled by the ScienceLogic AI Platform, you can:
- Gain greater business visibility: Minimize IT complexity with complete observability from edge to cloud, guided by human-friendly AI insights.
- Increase productivity and business agility: Automate workflows, reduce tool sprawl, and free of engineering teams to focus on innovation.
- Fix issues faster: Proactively identify and resolve issues to accelerate operations, increase uptime, and enhance customer satisfaction.
- Drive continuous improvement: Empower your business with a self-healing, self-optimizing IT ecosystem.
AIOps vs. autonomic IT
AIOps uses advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI), to automate operations so that ITOps teams can move with greater speed and agility. While AIOps continues to play a crucial role in digital transformation, autonomic IT represents the next step in the AIOps journey.
The differences are remarkable:
- Guidance: AIOps requires human guidance, while >autonomic IT guides humans.
- Output: AIOps delivers technical insights. Autonomic IT delivers business solutions.
- Scope: AIOps performs a fixed range of actions. Autonomic IT is inherently extensible and can evolve with the business.
- Focus: AIOps focuses on fixing IT issues. Autonomic IT presents recommendations for IT optimization.
- Objectives: AIOps maintains current business IT state. Autonomic IT provides strategic insights and operational efficiencies to create a better business.
- Adaptation: AIOps is aware of a fixed set of device types, while autonomic IT can adapt to support any new service or device.
Why choose ScienceLogic?
ScienceLogic is a leader in intelligent, automated IT operations management, building and investing in innovative technologies to solve the complexity of modern IT environments. Trusted by thousands of organizations across the globe to monitor their digital footprint wherever it resides, ScienceLogic transforms data into actionable insights by processing trillions of data points, enabling visibility and improving availability of business services across organizations. ScienceLogic solutions meet the rigorous security requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and they have been proven for scale by the world’s largest service providers.
Along with solutions for autonomic IT, the ScienceLogic platform offers hybrid cloud monitoring tools, data observability tools for DataOps teams, IT workflow automation solutions, automated troubleshooting and remediation, accelerated incident response, and network automation and configuration management.
Autonomic IT FAQs
What is autonomic IT?
Autonomic IT is a system that autonomously maintains itself using adaptive data acquisition, machine-driven insights, and automated actions. Combining AIOps, AI, ML, and automation, an autonomic IT platform continuously monitors the IT estate and autonomously maintains IT performance while intelligently guiding and advising humans on how to optimize IT operations.
What are the benefits of autonomic IT?
Autonomic IT enables a self-empowered IT environment that automatically monitors, optimizes, and heals technology investments. By quickly identifying issues, uncovering root causes, and rapidly remediating problems, autonomic IT frees IT teams and IT budgets to focus on new innovations and competitive advantages.
What is an autonomous enterprise?
An autonomous enterprise is a business that functions with a high degree of independence and self-governance, using advanced technologies like AI and machine learning to automate many aspects of operations. Autonomous enterprises are driven by AI systems that make real-time decisions and that quickly adapt and respond to changes in markets and business environments.