Resource and asset lifecycle costing

A computer program product to support resource management, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to:
• collect resource information and corresponding configuration information in parallel with monitoring runtime utilization of resource performance;
• discover one or more changes to one or more resources, and assess changed configuration information corresponding to the changed one or more resources;
• derive a cost model configured to account for the discovered one or more changes to the one or more resources;
• and
• leverage the derived cost model as a component of a multi-dimensional resource evaluation, and generate resource utilization optimization as output.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• collecting resource information and corresponding configuration information in parallel with monitoring runtime utilization of resource performance;
• discovering one or more changes to one or more resource, and assessing changed configuration information corresponding to the changed one or more resources;
• deriving a cost model accounting for the discovered one or more changes to the one or more resources;
• and
• leveraging the derived cost model as a component of a multi-dimensional resource evaluation, and generating resource utilization optimization as output.