Self-adjusting resource provisioning

A method for self-adjusting environmentally aware resource provisioning, the method comprising:

• a processor of a resource-provisioning system monitoring a set of external information sources;
• the processor inferring, as a function of the monitoring, that a threshold condition of a set of conditions has been satisfied, where the satisfaction of the threshold condition predicts a computerized entity's expected level of utilization of a first resource at a future time;
• the processor reprovisioning the first resource, in response to the inferring, where the reprovisioning changes an amount of the first resource that will be available to the computerized entity at the future time;
• the processor determining, at a time later than the future time, whether the total amount of the first resource after the reprovisioning was sufficient to meet requirements resulting from an actual level of utilization of the first resource at the future time;
• the processor further determining, at a time later than the future time, whether the total amount of the first resource after the reprovisioning was greater than an amount needed to meet requirements resulting from the actual level of utilization of the first resource at the future time;
• the processor adjusting a setting of the threshold condition as a function of the determining and of the further determining;
• the processor detecting an unexpected change in the computerized entity's utilization of a second resource, where the change is deemed to be unexpected because the change was not predicted by a satisfaction of any condition of the set of conditions;
• the processor attempting to identify a second condition of the set of conditions that is capable of predicting future levels of utilization of the second resource by the computerized entity;
• if successfully identifying the second condition, the processor adjusting a setting of the second condition such that satisfaction of the adjusted second condition would have been capable of predicting the unexpected change before the unexpected change occurred;
• and
• if unable to identify the second condition, the processor adding a new condition to the set of conditions, such that the new condition would have been capable of predicting the unexpected change before the unexpected change occurred.

A computer program product, comprising a computer-readable hardware storage device having a computer-readable program code stored therein, the program code configured to be executed by a resource-provisioning system comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device containing program code configured to be run by the processor via the memory to implement a method for self-adjusting environmentally aware resource provisioning, the method comprising:

• the processor monitoring a set of external information sources;
• the processor inferring, as a function of the monitoring, that a threshold condition of a set of conditions has been satisfied, where the satisfaction of the threshold condition predicts a computerized entity's expected level of utilization of a first resource at a future time;
• the processor reprovisioning the first resource, in response to the inferring, where the reprovisioning changes an amount of the first resource that will be available to the computerized entity at the future time;
• the processor determining, at a time later than the future time, whether the total amount of the first resource after the reprovisioning was sufficient to meet requirements resulting from an actual level of utilization of the first resource at the future time;
• the processor further determining, at a time later than the future time, whether the total amount of the first resource after the reprovisioning was greater than an amount needed to meet requirements resulting from the actual level of utilization of the first resource at the future time;
• the processor adjusting a setting of the threshold condition as a function of the determining and of the further determining;
• the processor detecting an unexpected change in the computerized entity's utilization of a second resource, where the change is deemed to be unexpected because the change was not predicted by a satisfaction of any condition of the set of conditions;
• the processor attempting to identify a second condition of the set of conditions that is capable of predicting future levels of utilization of the second resource by the computerized entity;
• if successfully identifying the second condition, the processor adjusting a setting of the second condition such that satisfaction of the adjusted second condition would have been capable of predicting the unexpected change before the unexpected change occurred;
• and
• if unable to identify the second condition, the processor adding a new condition to the set of conditions, such that the new condition would have been capable of predicting the unexpected change before the unexpected change occurred.