Patent ID: 9047574
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for forecasting electronic data storage requirements, the method comprising: determining whether to use existing control data or new control data; if it is determined to use new control data, obtaining criteria for the new control data, at least in part by receiving a user selection of at least one of a range of internet protocol addresses and a set of host names; if it is determined to use existing control data, providing a user options to select the existing control data to be used and to edit the existing control data in order to add or change criteria specified by the existing control data; identifying from among a first plurality of computing device entities located on a network a second plurality of computing device entities that satisfies the user selection; collecting with an agentless protocol interface storage-related information from each of the second plurality of computing device entities, wherein said collecting comprises querying each of the second plurality of computing device entities using a network protocol, and wherein the storage-related information comprises disk usage, disk utilization, performance and failure rate; upon user initiation of a forecasting operation: when determining to use a new forecast scenario, invoking a process for creating a new forecast scenario, wherein the process comprises (1) receiving a user selection of a scope of historical data, the scope defining a set of elements, entities, or groups against which a model and resulting forecast are created, (2) obtaining modeling parameters from a user, and (3) generating a new scenario, wherein obtaining the modeling parameters comprises: