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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2011
Applicants:

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);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.


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