Systems and methods for IT supply chain management on a distributed platform

A system for distributed information technology (IT) resource transactions, comprising:

• a distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform and at least one producer node;
• wherein the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform is in network communication with the at least one producer node;
• wherein the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform is in network communication with at least one consumer computer;
• wherein the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform is configured to receive a workload request from at least one consumer computer;
• wherein the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform is operable to poll information from the at least one producer node regarding the workload request;
• wherein the information from the at least one producer node includes dynamic surplus capacity information and workload status, wherein the dynamic surplus capacity information is based on a Workload Allocation Cube (WAC) algorithm measuring six IT resources including processing power, memory, storage, Disk Input/Output (I/O), Local Area Network (LAN) I/O, and Wide Area Network (WAN) I/O;
• wherein the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform is based on Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerant (IBFT) consensus protocol;
• wherein the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform is operable to receive metrics from the at least one producer node regarding a workload deployed at the at least one producer node;
• and
• wherein the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform is operable to settle the IT resource transactions between the at least one consumer computer and the at least one producer node based on the information from the at least one producer node and/or the metrics from the at least one producer node.

A method for distributed information technology (IT) resource transactions, comprising:

• providing a distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform, wherein at least one consumer computer and at least one producer node are in network communication with the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform;
• the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform receiving a workload request from the at least one consumer computer;
• the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform polling information from the at least one producer node regarding the workload request, wherein the information from the at least one producer node includes dynamic surplus capacity information and workload status, wherein the dynamic surplus capacity information is based on a Workload Allocation Cube (WAC) algorithm measuring six IT resources including processing power, memory, storage, Disk Input/Output (I/O), Local Area Network (LAN) I/O, and Wide Area Network (WAN) I/O;
• deploying a workload to corresponding one or more producer nodes based on the workload request;
• and
• the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform settling the IT resource transactions between the at least one consumer computer and the at least one producer node;
• wherein the distributed IT infrastructure capacity management platform is based on Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerant (IBFT) consensus protocol.