Computing infrastructure today is highly versatile and this has many benefits for businesses. Unfortunately, it also has downsides; use that infrastructure unintelligently and costs can get out of control. This is especially true as the use of both public and private cloud computing increases; it is like an all-you-can-eat restaurant – consume without thinking and you will soon become bloated.Intelligent workload management (IWM) is the means for keeping consumption of computing resources efficient whilst still making sure business tasks are supported by all the resources they need and that this is all done securely. IWM tools support the building, management, monitoring and securing of workloads.This report should be of interest to anyone tasked with running  a contemporary computing  environment who wants to be credited with placing their organisation at the leading edge of technology usewithin their business.