Patent ID: 8769529

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a first node including a monitoring module to monitor operations of at least one processor in a third node to define a set of executed applications and to track times at which applications among the set of executed applications are executed under a first operating system over a selected time period to determine a usage pattern for the applications during the selected time period, the selected time period being at least one of a time of day, a day of a week, and a calendar date; a generating processor included in a second node to generate an image of a second operating system having sufficient resources to service a subset of the set of executed applications, the subset determined according to the usage pattern for the selected time period and a number of the resources provided by the second operating system being less than or equal to a number of resources provided by the first operating system, wherein the usage pattern is further determined by comparing a lower threshold of use against actual use of some of the set of executed applications; and a loader in the first node to load the image of the second operating system from the second node automatically when a current time period matches the selected time period.