Intelligent Workload Management enables your enterprise to manage
and optimize your computing resources in a policy driven, secure and
compliant manner across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. In this session we present the answer on questions like "What is a Workload Cycle", "The Big IT Challenge: How to balance between flexibility
and control", "is there a cure for SaaS-sprawl?" and "How best to manage all of this?".
Intelligence, Management and the Workload Cycle
The lifecycle of a workload can be broken down into four stages:
build, secure, manage and measure. Broadly speaking, workload
management involves overseeing all four stages from workload design and
creation to its real world deployment. Given this model, there are a
couple of definitions for what would constitute an Intelligent
workload. We take a stab at defining those in this post on
IntelligentWorkloadManagement.com.
The Big IT Challenge: Balancing Flexibility
and Control
In the connected, “always on” world, big news and current events
can unexpectedly tax the ability of even major online players to handle
radical traffic spikes. To take just one example, when Michael
Jackson died, search queries for the departed star surged so
rapidly on Google that folks over there actually mistook
the activity for an automated attack.
While your organization might not be a Google, and you might not be
managing an operation like YouTube, which
currently handles 11,574 views per second or a billion views a day,
chances are that your business does require more and more flexibility
with regards to IT infrastructure and the services it provides to both
internal and external customers.
Thankfully, given the state of technology today, you don’t have to
maintain a data center or a server farm large enough to handle crazy
peaks, but which otherwise sits idle and drains resources. Instead, you
can create a hybrid
infrastructure that leverages the cloud, virtualization, and SaaS
models to ensure that you have the capacity you need when you need it,
without having to carry the cost when you don’t.
Is There a Cure for SaaS-sprawl?
All the hype (and some of the reality)
around SaaS is - rightly or
not depending on the organization - starting to actually push IT
administrators to take advantage of these offerings. That’s great if
you’re a SaaS vendor; not so great if you’re a SaaS customer who has
found moving to SaaS for its simplicity has made your life more
complicated. The problem is posed by the need to manage security and
identity across numerous SaaS instances, each with its own peculiar way
of doing so. So how best to manage it? All answers can be found in this session.
