Abstract: Reservation of resources for a service includes receiving a request for resources for a project duration with a start time and an end time; determining if the requested resources are available for the project duration; determining a utilization level of one or more resource provisioning components during a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project; and determining if the one or more resource provisioning components have capacity to handle the provisioning of resources for the request prior to the start time of the project. The one or more resource provisioning components can be reserved for a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query. A target confidence level is established for the query, the target confidence level representing a requested level of accuracy for a result of the query. At least one individual confidence level is assigned to each of a plurality of analytics engines. One or more analytics engines are queried based on the query. A group of the analytics engines are selected, by a computer processor, where the analytics engines in the selected group have query responses to the query that are deemed to be similar to one another, and where the selection of the selected group is at least partially based on the target confidence level. The query responses from the selected group of analytics engines are summarized into a final result, where the final result is an answer to the query.

Abstract: Reservation of resources for a service includes receiving a request for resources for a project duration with a start time and an end time; determining if the requested resources are available for the project duration; determining a utilization level of one or more resource provisioning components during a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project; and determining if the one or more resource provisioning components have capacity to handle the provisioning of resources for the request prior to the start time of the project. The one or more resource provisioning components can be reserved for a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project.

Abstract: Reservation of resources for a service includes receiving a request for resources for a project duration with a start time and an end time; determining if the requested resources are available for the project duration; determining a utilization level of one or more resource provisioning components during a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project; and determining if the one or more resource provisioning components have capacity to handle the provisioning of resources for the request prior to the start time of the project. The one or more resource provisioning components can be reserved for a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query. A target confidence level is established for the query, the target confidence level representing a requested level of accuracy for a result of the query. At least one individual confidence level is assigned to each of a plurality of analytics engines. One or more analytics engines are queried based on the query. A group of the analytics engines are selected, by a computer processor, where the analytics engines in the selected group have query responses to the query that are deemed to be similar to one another, and where the selection of the selected group is at least partially based on the target confidence level. The query responses from the selected group of analytics engines are summarized into a final result, where the final result is an answer to the query.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query. A target confidence level is established for the query, the target confidence level representing a requested level of accuracy for a result of the query. At least one individual confidence level is assigned to each of a plurality of analytics engines. One or more analytics engines are queried based on the query. A group of the analytics engines are selected, by a computer processor, where the analytics engines in the selected group have query responses to the query that are deemed to be similar to one another, and where the selection of the selected group is at least partially based on the target confidence level. The query responses from the selected group of analytics engines are summarized into a final result, where the final result is an answer to the query.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query. A target confidence level is established for the query, the target confidence level representing a requested level of accuracy for a result of the query. At least one individual confidence level is assigned to each of a plurality of analytics engines. One or more analytics engines are queried based on the query. A group of the analytics engines are selected, by a computer processor, where the analytics engines in the selected group have query responses to the query that are deemed to be similar to one another, and where the selection of the selected group is at least partially based on the target confidence level. The query responses from the selected group of analytics engines are summarized into a final result, where the final result is an answer to the query.

Abstract: Reservation of resources for a service includes receiving a request for resources for a project duration with a start time and an end time; determining if the requested resources are available for the project duration; determining a utilization level of one or more resource provisioning components during a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project; and determining if the one or more resource provisioning components have capacity to handle the provisioning of resources for the request prior to the start time of the project. The one or more resource provisioning components can be reserved for a provisioning time prior to the start time of the project.