Given the undeniable criticality of IT to the business, the CIO that can’t deliver predictable performance, while minimizing cost, puts their business, and their job, at considerable risk. As they strive to adapt to today’s infrastructure trends, these leaders are realizing the limitations of traditional approaches; monitoring, alerts, schedulers, scripting, and orchestration can’t assure performance alone. This guide discusses the five stages of IT maturity and how — no matter where an organization exists today — adopting an autonomic approach that allows workloads to self-manage on any infrastructure or cloud can help.