Patent ID: 8635624

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a node including a reception module to receive time-based reservation requests for predefined resource environments comprising resource types including hardware, software, and data, the data comprising at least subject data upon which analytical or transactional processing is to be performed by the software; and a conflict processor included in the node to detect a conflict between at least one of the resource types in a first one of the predefined resource environments and at least one of the resource types in a second one of the predefined resource environments, the conflict processor being configured to detect the conflict based at least in part on conflicting requirements of the reservation requests with respect to the subject data, and to resolve the conflict in favor of the first one of the predefined resource environments by at least one of reserving additional resource elements in a cloud computing architecture or reserving a less capable version of the second one of the predefined resource environments, wherein a relative importance assigned to a first task associated with the first one of the predefined resource environments is greater than a relative importance assigned to a second task associated with the second one of the predefined resource environments.