Patent ID: 8560291

Claim:
A method for analyzing one or more physical infrastructure elements of a data center, said method performed by execution of computer-readable program code by at least one processor of at least one computer system, said method comprising: generating, using at least one of the processors, a plurality of outputs from a stochastic process for a set of inputs to said stochastic process, wherein said stochastic process includes a plurality of evaluations of a deterministic model, said set of inputs comprising one or more inputs of certainty and one or more random variables having a probability distribution, and wherein for an evaluation of said plurality of evaluations of a deterministic model a random number determined from a probability distribution of said one or more random variables having a probability distribution is input into said deterministic model; performing, using at least one of the processors, a statistical output analysis of said outputs; and utilizing, using at least one of the processors, said statistical output analysis to generate one or more threshold reaching projections for each of said one or more physical infrastructure elements of said data center; wherein said inputs of certainty comprise one or more groups of IT applications associated with said data center, and wherein said one or more random variables having a probability distribution define one or more growth rates for each of said groups of IT applications.