Optimizing it infrastructure configuration

A computer program product for optimizing a configuration of an information technology (IT) infrastructure, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage media;
• first program instructions to establish a technology rule set, wherein the technology rule set defines technology weights of an IT infrastructure by mapping capabilities of IT infrastructure components to IT infrastructure attributes needed to execute a specific workload;
• second program instructions to receive responses, provided by a customer, to an attribute questionnaire, wherein the responses define a customer's level of agreement with the technology weights, and wherein each question in the attribute questionnaire is mapped to an IT infrastructure attribute of a candidate IT infrastructure;
• and
• third program instructions to, in response to determining that the candidate IT infrastructure fails to meet the customer's expectations, reconfigure the candidate IT infrastructure;
• fourth program instructions to determine an initial analysis of the candidate IT infrastructure as to how effectively multiple dimensions of a candidate IT infrastructure configuration will meet IT infrastructure attributes needed to execute the specific workload, wherein the multiple dimensions comprise new capabilities of the candidate IT infrastructure as compared to a current IT infrastructure, increased efficiency of the candidate IP infrastructure over the current IT infrastructure, a reduction in an amount of time required to increase profits by utilizing the candidate IP infrastructure instead of the current IT infrastructure, and a reduction in error rates due to utilization of the candidate IT infrastructure instead of the current IT infrastructure;
• fifth program instructions to generate a graph that depicts both customer opinions of the candidate IT infrastructure and the initial analysis of the candidate IT infrastructure as to how effectively the candidate IT infrastructure configuration will meet the IT infrastructure attributes needed to execute the specific workload;
• and wherein
• the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media.

A computer system comprising:

• a central processing unit (CPU), a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage media;
• first program instructions to establish a technology rule set, wherein the technology rule set defines technology weights of an IT infrastructure by mapping capabilities of IT infrastructure components to IT infrastructure attributes needed to execute a specific workload;
• second program instructions to receive responses, provided by a customer, to an attribute questionnaire, wherein the responses define a customer's level of agreement with the technology weights, and wherein each question in the attribute questionnaire is mapped to an IT infrastructure attribute of a candidate IT infrastructure;
• and
• third program instructions to, in response to determining that the candidate IT infrastructure fails to meet the customer's expectations, reconfigure the candidate IT infrastructure;
• fourth program instructions to determine an initial analysis of the candidate IT infrastructure as to how effectively multiple dimensions of a candidate IT infrastructure configuration will meet IT infrastructure attributes needed to execute the specific workload, wherein the multiple dimensions comprise new capabilities of the candidate IT infrastructure as compared to a current IT infrastructure, increased efficiency of the candidate IP infrastructure over the current IT infrastructure, a reduction in an amount of time required to increase profits by utilizing the candidate IP infrastructure instead of the current IT infrastructure, and a reduction in error rates due to utilization of the candidate IT infrastructure instead of the current IT infrastructure;
• fifth program instructions to generate a graph that depicts both customer opinions of the candidate IT infrastructure and the initial analysis of the candidate IT infrastructure as to how effectively the candidate IT infrastructure configuration will meet the IT infrastructure attributes needed to execute the specific workload;
• and wherein
• the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.