Patent ID: 8548863

Claim:
A computerized process comprising: receiving into one or more computer resources parameters relating to a plurality of services offered by a plurality of vendors in a plurality of cloud computing environments, the parameters further relating to an actual cost charged by each of the vendors and a cost relating to an environmental impact of each of the vendors; calculating, based on the computer resources, a value for each of the vendors as a function of the received parameters; selecting with the computer resources one or more vendors as a function of the calculated value; and outputting to another computer resource one or more of the selected vendors and the calculated values for each of the vendors; wherein the received parameters comprise a cost of the computer service for each of the vendors, an indication of an effort required to manage the computer service of each of the vendors, a geographical location of a datacenter for the computer service of each of the vendors, and data relating to a type of cooling system used in the datacenter for the computer service of each of the vendors.