As organizations and their cloud deployments mature and evolve, IT leaders are looking to "get smart” in the provisioning of resources. The move from a private cloud to a hybrid environment can be tricky. Proper provisioning maximizes resource utilization and reduces costs; all while ensuring cloud services are uncompromised. IT leaders need intelligent policy-based cloud workload management systems to help them understand performance targets, to proactively (automatically) take actions to comply with service-level agreements (SLAs).

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