Anticipatory protection of critical jobs in a computing system

An apparatus comprising a computer processor and a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:

• identifying a problem computing component in a computing system;
• identifying all proximate computing components in the computing system, wherein each proximate computing component is within a predetermined physical proximity of the problem computing component;
• determining whether the proximate computing components are executing one or more critical jobs, wherein the one or more critical jobs are not executing on the problem computing component;
• and
• responsive to determining that the proximate computing components are executing one or more critical jobs migrating the one or more critical jobs to distant computing components in the computing system, wherein each distant computing component is not within the predetermined physical proximity of the problem computing component.