Patent ID: 8108522

Claim:
A computer implemented method for autonomic management of service policies for applications migrating from a static computing environment to a dynamic computing environment, the method comprising: executing on a processor residing at an information processing system the following: monitoring usage data associated with each application in a plurality of applications while initially deployed within a static computing environment wherein each application is associated with a dedicated resource; analyzing the usage data which has been monitored; normalizing, based on the analyzing, the usage data, wherein the normalizing comprises: dividing a number of hours an application was used by a total number of hours in the usage data that was monitored; and multiplying a result of the dividing by a total number of invocations of the application in a given sample; sorting the usage data that has been normalized; applying a priority distribution to the usage data the has been normalized and sorted; assigning a relative priority level to each application based on the priority distribution; generating, in response to the analyzing, a set of service level agreements associated with each application in the plurality of applications, the set of service level agreements being based on the usage data monitored in the static computing environment, wherein each service level agreement in the set of service level agreements indicates the relative priority level and at least one of a set of response times, and a set of response time goals associated with one of the each application in the plurality of applications; and configuring a dynamic resource sharing computing environment, where each application of the plurality of applications is subsequently deployed, with the set of service level agreements for managing resource sharing between each application of the plurality of applications deployed in the dynamic resource sharing computing environment.