Information technology resource management

A computer program product for scaling resources, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor for:
• identifying an upcoming event impacting an application running on one or more resources;
• predicting a workload on the application based on the upcoming event identified and a historical data of a previous event having similarity with the upcoming event, wherein the prediction is performed using a predefined rule;
• ascertaining a number of said resources required to process the predicted workload using a past scaling history of the application;
• and
• scaling said resources based on the ascertained number of said resources before the occurrence of the event.