Automated server provisioning tools reduce costs, increase business agility, and help prevent variations that could create vulnerabilities. Not all cloud management tools work equally well with all cloud providers, nor do they all allow customers to manage their internal and external clouds as a single unit. Automated, consistent provisioning can also offer the fringe benefit of improving security. The process of deciding whether to host a particular application or service in the cloud and, if so, in what type of cloud, forces organizations to assess the value of an application.”]