| 摘要 |
<p>A software tool and database enables a user to correlate and systematically associate hardware and software configuration data with license agreement information. The tool presents configuration information based on agreement criteria and/or agreement information based on configuration criteria in an integrated fashion that permits the user to switch from one kind of information to the other kind in a variety of convenient ways. The invention provides for tracking and day-to-day management of technical requirements, costs and environmental details of existing data centers, and the creation of scenarios for determining the optimum acquisition, expansion and reconfiguration strategies of the data centers. A modeling tool allows for the creation of various 'What-If' scenarios of possible data center configurations for long term projections of the technical and financial requirements of existing, modified or proposed data center configurations.</p> |
