<s>
Intelligent	B-Application
workload	I-Application
management	I-Application
(	O
IWM	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
paradigm	O
for	O
IT	O
systems	O
management	O
arising	O
from	O
the	O
intersection	O
of	O
dynamic	B-Operating_System
infrastructure	I-Operating_System
,	O
virtualization	B-General_Concept
,	O
identity	O
management	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
discipline	O
of	O
software	B-Application
appliance	I-Application
development	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
IWM	O
paradigm	O
builds	O
on	O
the	O
traditional	O
concept	O
of	O
workload	B-Application
management	I-Application
whereby	O
processing	O
resources	O
are	O
dynamically	O
assigned	O
to	O
tasks	O
,	O
or	O
"	O
workloads	O
,	O
"	O
based	O
on	O
criteria	O
such	O
as	O
business	O
process	O
priorities	O
(	O
for	O
example	O
,	O
in	O
balancing	O
business	O
intelligence	O
queries	O
against	O
online	O
transaction	O
processing	O
)	O
,	O
resource	O
availability	O
,	O
security	O
protocols	O
,	O
or	O
event	O
scheduling	O
,	O
but	O
extends	O
the	O
concept	O
into	O
the	O
structure	O
of	O
individual	O
workloads	O
themselves	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
context	O
of	O
IT	O
systems	O
and	O
data	B-Operating_System
center	I-Operating_System
management	O
,	O
a	O
"	O
workload	O
"	O
can	O
be	O
broadly	O
defined	O
as	O
"	O
the	O
total	O
requests	O
made	O
by	O
users	O
and	O
applications	O
of	O
a	O
system.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
a	O
self-contained	O
unit	O
constitutes	O
a	O
"	O
workload	O
"	O
in	O
the	O
narrow	O
sense	O
:	O
an	O
integrated	O
stack	O
consisting	O
of	O
application	B-Application
,	O
middleware	B-General_Concept
,	O
database	O
,	O
and	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
devoted	O
to	O
a	O
specific	O
computing	O
task	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Typically	O
,	O
a	O
workload	O
is	O
"	O
platform	O
agnostic	O
,	O
"	O
meaning	O
that	O
it	O
can	O
run	O
in	O
physical	O
,	O
virtual	O
or	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
deployment	O
of	O
individual	O
workloads	O
and	O
workload-based	O
business	O
services	O
in	O
the	O
"	O
hybrid	O
distributed	O
data	B-Operating_System
center	I-Operating_System
,	O
"	O
-	O
including	O
physical	O
machines	O
,	O
data	B-Operating_System
centers	I-Operating_System
,	O
private	O
clouds	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
public	O
cloud	O
-	O
raises	O
a	O
host	O
of	O
issues	O
for	O
the	O
efficient	O
management	O
of	O
provisioning	O
,	O
security	O
,	O
and	O
compliance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
making	O
workloads	O
"	O
intelligent	O
"	O
so	O
that	O
they	O
can	O
effectively	O
manage	O
themselves	O
in	O
terms	O
of	O
where	O
they	O
run	O
,	O
how	O
they	O
run	O
,	O
and	O
who	O
can	O
access	O
them	O
,	O
intelligent	B-Application
workload	I-Application
management	I-Application
addresses	O
these	O
issues	O
in	O
a	O
way	O
that	O
is	O
efficient	O
,	O
flexible	O
,	O
and	O
scalable	O
.	O
</s>
