US Patent 10003514 Method and system for determining a deployment of applications

There is provided a method of determining a deployment of applications in a computer system comprising a plurality of computing hardware. The method comprise obtaining, for each of a plurality of applications, a set of application characteristics, assigning each of the plurality of applications, using the obtained characteristics, to one of a plurality of predetermined application models, and determining a virtual server deployment plan and an application deployment plan, the determination based in part on characteristics of the computer system, characteristics of the applications, and application model compatibility data.