Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
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Internal Resources
: they are the result of the common migration process to the
cloud. Resources are hosted by internal infrastructures and they are available as
virtual resource in the platform.
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External Resources
: they are hosted by external infrastructures but they are
pervasively available into the platform as virtual resources (Virtualization).
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Next Generation Resources
: can be designed and implemented directly over the
virtualized layer provided by the platform.
Fig. 1.
Interconnecting resources in the Cloud
The platform model assures a flexible and shared infrastructure mainly featured by
the following points:
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It enables
ecosystems
among heterogeneous systems.
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It provides a pervasive
virtual environment
: resources are managed at virtual
levels assuring high-interoperable capabilities.
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Cloud Approach
: scalable, competitive and sustainable solutions.
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Open Semantic Support
: the core semantic support can be integrated/extended
with domain-specific interoperability capabilities (e.g. health/medical).
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Cross-domain Platform
: the core infrastructure of the platform is not domain-
specific; the potential application range increases with the expressivity of the semantics.
The diagram represented in the figure 2 shows the platform conceptualization. The free
software IHMC CmapTools [7] is adopted for specifying this compact model as a
concept map. IHMC CmapTools proposes an approach for knowledge representation
similar to semantic networks that build semantic relations among concepts through a
directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices, which represent concepts, and edges.
