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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2011
Martin Arlitt, Calgary, CA;
Thomas W. Christian, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Daniel Juergen Gmach, Palo ALto, CA (US);
Chris D. Hyser, Victor, NY (US);
Jerome Rolia, Kanata, CA;
Manish Marwah, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Amip J Shah, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cullen E. Bash, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Chandrakant Patel, Fremont, CA (US);
Martin Arlitt, Calgary, CA;
Thomas W. Christian, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Daniel Juergen Gmach, Palo ALto, CA (US);
Chris D. Hyser, Victor, NY (US);
Jerome Rolia, Kanata, CA;
Manish Marwah, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Amip J Shah, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cullen E. Bash, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Chandrakant Patel, Fremont, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to shift information technology workload demands are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises obtaining demand profiles for workloads in an information technology infrastructure, each demand profile representing resource utilization over time to support a respective workload, and evaluating the demand profiles to shift, in time, assignment of at least one of the workloads to resources of the information technology infrastructure based on a target demand profile for an aggregation of the workloads.