You need your business priorities to drive your IT infrastructure, accelerating delivery of high-value projects to meet the demands of customers. You need your users to be able to self-provision IT resources as appropriate. You need to provide world-class computing power where and when it’s needed. Optimized cloud delivery solutions put business users in control to dynamically drive resource delivery. This can help assure that resources are delivered in the most timely and efficient manner.

IBM offers optimized cloud delivery solutions that can support self-provisioning, on demand, "virtual enterprises" that support access to computing power any time, anywhere, unconstrained by location.

Support ongoing cost savings

• Automatically reserve and reclaim computing power to virtually eliminate underutilization.
• Support standardization with business-ready cloud offerings for significant gains in productivity and rapid return on investment.
• Gain awareness of usage-based costs to highlight efficiency opportunities and facilitate granular chargeback.

Improve service delivery

• Provide self service capabilities for provisioning application stacks as services.
• Ensure that resources are directed to the workloads that matter most to business clients.
• Support elastic scaling to avoid disruptive capacity shortfalls.

Increase business agility

• Facilitate rapid provisioning of new services or resources and the scaling of established services to dramatically increase business agility.
• Support creativity by almost entirely decoupling business decisions from infrastructure constraints.
• Preserve business capital by exploiting pay-as-you-go, self-service access to virtualized resources virtually anywhere and anytime, whether internal or external to the organization.