Methods and systems for dynamically specializing and re-purposing computer servers in an elastically scaling cloud computing infrastructure

A method comprising:

• receiving from a computer via a network interface a workload request to manage a workload in a cloud computing infrastructure, wherein the workload has at least one workload requirement;
• determining the one or more workload requirements associated with the workload request;
• evaluating a server resource pool with at least two servers in the cloud computing infrastructure to determine which of the at least two servers in said server resource pool can satisfy the at least one workload requirement of the workload request wherein each of the at least two servers in said server resource pool have at least one capability;
• eliminating any of said at least two servers from the server resource pool that cannot satisfy at least one of the at least one workload requirement of the workload request by comparing the at least one workload requirement and the at least one capability of each of the at least two servers;
• determining which of the at least two servers, from the remaining servers in the server resource pool, is the best fit for the workload request based on:
• the existing workload of each server;
• and
• other related criteria;
• and
• assigning the workload to the server determined as the best fit for the workload request.