730049InAngelClosedLegacy RDA Grant for R&DInnovate UKIntelligent Network since its outset has wanted to deliver a working solution for true "on demand" application provisioning. IBM first brought this concept to market several years ago; however since then no vendor has managed to truly make this concept a reality. The main reason why this concept has not really delivered is that current vendors have not developed new technology to make the concept work nor have they applied the completeness of vision that is required to make this work correctly. To truly deliver on-demand provisioning a decision engine needs to collect information from many sources prior to making infrastructure changes: 1. System performance 2. Network performance 3. Storage availability 4. Business transaction consumption 5. Business transaction importance 6. Cost of Business transaction 7. Historic trends of usage 8. Outside world events and marketing promotions Companies and vendors have spent many millions of dollars trying to solve this holy grail of provisioning. Businesses have large budgets looking to more accurately plan capacity however in reality capacity planning has not moved on to deliver true "on demand". This failure is not because the component technology used today has not progressed it is because capacity planning does not dynamically consider all the business and technical reasoning to make informed capacity decisions. Given that excess capacity (still the norm) costs money and is not considerate of the green issues we face today, while too little capacity results in lower costs but poorer business performance, IN identified that a technology step change is required to automate provision of computing resources. Today's provisioning systems cannot work to the best efficiency because they are founded on a bottom-up approach. lnAngel is designed to address the problem from a top-down approach - addressing the businesses required performance and value of transactions first, then looking at available resources and performance then making on the fly decisions to deliver the most costeffective provisioning. The advent of virtualisation, SOA and Cloud computing coupled with lnAngel can now make true "on-demand" provisioning a reality!