Patent ID: 9626710
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for resource management, comprising: receiving, by a computer system, at least one resource usage check associated with a distributed computing system; receiving, by the computer system, resource usage information associated with a data storage device of the distributed computing system, the resource usage information based at least in part on a setting particular to at least one account's configuration of the data storage device and historical usage data associated with the at least one account of the data storage device; performing, by the computer system, the at least one resource usage check based at least in part on a user provided setting; transmitting, by the computer system, based at least in part on an outcome of the performed at least one resource usage check, information about a resource optimization operation to a user device, the information identifying a number of data storage devices to utilize and a type of the data storage devices to utilize; receiving, by the computer system, input from the user device confirming the resource optimization operation; and executing, by the computer system in response to the input received from the user device, a script to perform the resource optimization operation on at least one component of the distributed computing system.