Patent Document ID: 8201180
Application ID: 11842803
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system, comprising: a processor; and a database for storing a model of an infrastructure associated with one or more of a computing and communications resource, the model defining: a set of resources provided by the infrastructure; a set of software applications operating within the infrastructure and utilising resources; and associations between given applications in the model and given resources to indicate utilisation of the given resources by the given applications; wherein the database stores: capacity information associated with resources, the capacity information specifying, for one or more given resources, a resource capacity provided by those resources; and resource allocation information, specifying for a given association between an application and one or more resources, a resource quantity allocated to the application from the associated one or more resources, wherein the database further stores: capacity information associated with applications, the capacity information specifying, for an application, a resource capacity provided by the application to application services, wherein the database further stores: information defining application services provisioned to users of applications; associations between application services and applications; and resource allocation information specifying, for a given association between an application service and an application, a resource quantity allocated to the application service from the associated one or more applications, and wherein the database stores information defining, for a given service type, a resource allocation profile indicating one or more resource quantities to be assigned to a service of the given type.