While cloud services offer some respite from infrastructure management challenges, most businesses are compelled to keep many workloads on premises, whether for performance or security reasons. This means they must optimise their own on-premises infrastructure in order to meet business demands. Many service providers have stepped up to help enterprises manage their on-premises data centres, including hardware vendors, managed and professional services providers, and even cloud service providers. However, few adequately address the need to efficiently manage on-premises—and often hybrid—environments while reducing capital expenditures.