Patent ID: 8055739

Claim:
A method for dynamically sharing performance information among multiple computing nodes, comprising: dynamically obtaining first performance information and first configuration information from deployments of an information technology (IT) product/solution at the computing nodes; transmitting the obtained first performance information and first configuration information to a server over a communication network for storing the obtained first performance information and first configuration information in a knowledge database; and at the server, dynamically determining, for a first deployment of the IT product/solution in a first deployment computing environment, new configuration information based on second performance information and corresponding second configuration information, selected from the first performance information and first configuration information stored in the knowledge database, for one or more second deployments of the IT product/solution in one or more second deployment computing environments, the one or more second deployment computing environments being determined to be similar to the first deployment computing environment, storing the new configuration information in the knowledge database, and dynamically providing the new configuration information to the first deployment by transmitting the new configuration information over the network, wherein determining the new configuration information for the first deployment further comprises: based on the information obtained from the first deployment: assigning a deployment type to the first deployment based on the obtained first configuration information from the first deployment, wherein the deployment type is a function of characteristics of the first computing environment of the first deployment as identified in the first configuration information; if an optimal configuration exists in the knowledge database for the deployment type, then providing the existing optimal configuration for the deployment type.