Patent ID: 8266074

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: an enterprise-side computer system of an enterprise dynamically predicting the enterprise's own utilization of a portion of a capacity of a computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, wherein the portion of the computing resource's capacity that is subject to the enterprise's own utilization is not available for utilization by any entity other than the enterprise; dependent upon said dynamically predicted utilization, said enterprise-side computer system setting a price associated with utilization of a spare portion of the capacity of said computing resource by an entity other than the enterprise occurring during said given interval of time, wherein the spare portion of the capacity is predicted not to be subject to the enterprise's own utilization; and said enterprise-side computer system electronically providing said price to a client-side computer system associated with a customer, wherein the client-side computer system is external to the enterprise.