International Business Machines Corporation
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED APPLICATION MODERNIZATION ADVISORY

Abstract:

Technology for applying artificial intelligence to decide when to, and/or when not to, send a consumer of a computer system a communication recommending that the computer system be revised to include a more recent version of at least one of the following: a hardware component (for example, microprocessor(s)) and/or a software component (for example, an updated version of an app). The computer system, that is subject to modernization, may be owned outright by the consumer, or it may be purchased as a service (for example, infrastructure as a service, software as a service, package of cloud services). Some embodiments focus on modernization recommendations specifically tailored to cloud orchestration software that deploys containers.