Patent ID: 8694906
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computing system comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying program components, the program components comprising: a user interface module that configures the computing system to provide an interface for a cloud computing infrastructure visualization tool, the interface including selection options for viewing infrastructure resources by customer, by location, or by infrastructure resource identity using data from an infrastructure data source, wherein the interface includes a selection option for a billing interface, the billing interface configured to display billing details based on data from the infrastructure data source and automatically calculate and display a forecast of future resource utilization comprising future bandwidth usage, wherein the future bandwidth usage is determined by tracking an amount of bandwidth used by infrastructure resources over a period of time and extrapolating the future bandwidth usage when a number of machines is changed; and an access module that configures the computing system to query the infrastructure data source for one or more records to populate elements of the interface, wherein the user interface module is configured to populate the interface based on data in the records.