In 2001, IBM wrote an autonomous IT manifesto. The Vision of Autonomic Computing broke down self-management into four pillars: self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. I was at Microsoft when IBM laid out this IT vision. We reacted by proposing technology ideas such as the autonomous data center, but ultimately, it was a dream that was way ahead of its time. There was no practical way to bring that vision to reality. In my Microsoft days, I was on the team…