About Intelligent Workload Management

Intelligent Workload Management is an emerging category of computing technologies that takes a new approach to the way IT resources are delivered across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.

IT needs to be more flexible than ever—scaling resources up or down as needs arise, so that businesses only pay for the resources they use. The adoption of virtualization has begun to free enterprises from the constraints of physical servers, increasing application performance, flexibility and efficiency. More recently, cloud computing has emerged, according to IDC, as “the natural progression to existing virtualized datacenters and applications…and expand[s] on existing software as a service (SaaS) offerings.”

But these new computing environments have raised serious concerns about the ability to manage identity, security and compliance outside of controlled, physical platforms. As the magnitude of security threats increases and compliance requirements grow exponentially, organizations need to know who is their accessing data—and what they are doing with it—inside and outside the firewall.

Intelligent Workload Management addresses the double-edged challenge of achieving flexibility and control by looking at IT systems management from a new perspective.

Today, the modern workload is becoming intelligent. This means bundling stacks of applications, middleware and a customizable operating system into a highly portable packages—and giving them built-in intelligence: an integrated set of management tools that know when to automatically switch from physical to virtual to cloud environments. These workloads come with security built-in, so they can be identity-aware, ensure the right people have the right access, and prove compliance in any computing environment.

Intelligent Workload Management gives IT the tools it needs to build, secure, manage and measure the performance of these modern workloads, allowing organizations to the fully leverage the advantages offered by virtualization and the cloud.

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