How intelligent workload management tools can help IT admins cut through cloud complexity

The pace of digital transformation has notably picked up in the past decade, as enterprises invest in technology to retain their competitive edge and avoid having their market share eroded by disruptive newcomers. Organisations' ability to out-innovate their competitors in this way often requires a full-scale modernisation of the IT infrastructure stack underpinning their operations so they are better positioned to respond to the changing needs of their customers. For many enterprises, this process of modernisation has seen them look to invest in making their private, virtualised datacentres and server rooms more agile, responsive and easier to manage by investing in software-defined networking (SDN) technologies and automation tools. Such investments can help enterprises make better and more efficient use of their existing compute capacity, but that alone may not be enough to stave off competitive threats, prompting some IT leaders to weigh up a move to the public cloud. The benefits of such an approach are well-documented and proven, with the public cloud offering enterprises ready access to an almost infinite supply of cloud-based compute resources that can be set to auto-scale in line with peaks and troughs in demand, meaning enterprises only pay for what they use.