a business method associates provisioning costs with a usage history indicative of user computing demand , and coalesces the cost data to identify an appropriate provisioning level balancing the provisioning cost and the usage demand cost . conventional computing environments suffer from the shortcoming of being prone to overprovisioning or underprovisioning a user . such misprovisioning is inefficient because it denotes underutilized computing resources or ineffective and / or disgruntled users . costs increase either due to the excessive hardware bestowed on the overprovisioned user , or in support costs addressing the underprovisioned user . configurations herein substantially overcome such shortcomings by defining a policy indicative of overprovisioning and underprovisioning indicators , and defining rules to specify a triggering event indicating the need to reassess the provisioning of a user .