Szukana fraza: [Abstract = We illustrate the autonomic behavior of BlobSeer with a self\-configuration component aiming to provide storage elasticity by dynamically scaling the number of data providers. Then we propose a preliminary approach for enabling self\-protection for the BlobSeer system, through a malicious client detection component. The introspective architecture has been evaluated on the Grid\?5000 testbed, with experiments that prove the feasibility of generating relevant information related to the state and behavior of the system.]