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Collation Joins IBM Autonomic Computing Initiative

Collation Inc, a pioneer of application topology and configuration management solutions for the enterprise, announced that it has joined the IBM Autonomic Computing Initiative.

"Understanding the structure and definition of applications is the mandatory first step to realizing self-managing computing systems and puts organizations on the road to Autonomic Computing," said Vinu Sundaresan, CTO and co-founder of Collation. "This is the goal which Collation and IBM share, and we are excited to join IBM in this effort by enabling our Confignia product using the Autonomic Computing Toolkit."

The objective of the Autonomic Computing Initiative is to realize a world where computer systems are self-managing -- fixing their own problems before you even know something is wrong -- which allows IT professionals to better control increasingly complex and expensive IT environments. Collation's Confignia product will be Autonomic Computing enabled by the end of 2004. Collation customers deploying Confignia today will also be able to take advantage of this integration when it is completed.