The sanctioned and unsanctioned acquisition and provisioning of cloud services by business units are major challenges for IT leaders tasked with shared–service responsibilities of meeting SLAs, cost management, risk management, and resource management. There is also a great potential for waste in terms of resources consumed to achieve necessary agility objectives. Dynamic optimization technology can help balance the benefits of agility with required governance controls for cloud services and virtualized infrastructure. Read this analyst report to learn the benefits of incorporating dynamic optimization technology into your infrastructure and cloud initiatives.