Service orientation at the infrastructure level is being adopted and is expected to become the foundation for higher-level SOA applications to execute. It is clear that well-defined services directly provided by the hardware platform bring advantages of availability, reliability, and OS independence. By directly exposing standard programming interfaces to developers, PaaS will help enable the use of autonomic computing in IT infrastructure.

Our POC demonstrates that transition to a service-oriented autonomic enterprise takes collaborative efforts of the ecosystem from hardware and software vendors, system integrators, and IT professionals. This transition will neither come naturally as a result of any single company. Standards definitions and interoperable implementations are key to this ordeal.