Patent Document ID: 8041808
Application ID: 11731044
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: using one or more processors to perform the following: collecting and analyzing historic resource utilization data relating to a plurality of servers, the resource utilization data representing a load placed on a set of finite resources over a predefined period of time; generating an exponential growth model for each server based on analysis of the historic resource utilization data; generating a linear growth model for a particular server by transforming the exponential growth model into the linear growth model when the historic resource utilization data generates a slope of the exponential growth model that is twice a slope of an end of the most recent historic resource utilization data in the exponential growth model; creating a resource utilization forecast for each server from the exponential growth model or the linear growth model; receiving an assignment of a threshold value for the resource utilization forecast of each server; identifying an earliest forecasted date the threshold value is exceeded for the particular server based on the resource utilization forecast and the threshold value of each server; and sorting a number of resource utilization forecasts by the identified date for each of the number of resource utilization forecasts; wherein the number of resource utilization forecasts includes linear and exponential growth models.