Abstract: An apparatus in one example comprises one or more policies, a director component, and a control component. The one or more policies comprise one or more dynamically-updateable policies and zero or more fixed policies. The director component automatically employs information about one or more of a plurality of loads on a resource in conjunction with the one or more policies to automatically determine whether to decrease one or more loads of the one or more of the plurality of loads on the resource. Upon determination by the director component to decrease the one or more loads the director component automatically prepares an instruction to decrease the one or more loads. The control component, upon receipt of the instruction from the director component, automatically decreases the one or more loads on the resource. The one or more dynamically-updateable policies are changeable contemporaneously with active operation of the director component with the control component.