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but they are not migrated to the cloud. Motivations for preferring a virtualized
resource can be related to law restrictions, business constraints or any other real
situation that does not match a full cloud approach.
Regardless from the deployment aspects, a platform that allows the enablement and
integration of heterogeneous resources significantly improves the business
opportunities and capabilities around shared resources. This is mainly because the
virtual resources repository provided by the platform allows a central understanding
and management of distributed and heterogeneous environments. The exploitation
model of available resources is conceptually similar to services exploitation model.
An exhaustive analysis is out of paper scope.
3.3
Technical Overview: Functional and Semantic Support
Platform designed according to the proposed approach should include at least a set of
core functionalities, as well as a full semantic support. A reference model can be
logically structured as in the follow (Figure 4):
•
CORE Infrastructure/Functional support
: infrastructures and any other functional
support to the ecosystem.
•
Management support
: set of functionalities for the management of the platform.
•
Semantic support
: models for knowledge representation.
An exhaustive overview at the architecture design (as well as a detailed analysis of
functional layers) is out of the paper scope. The most interesting functional
component is probably the
Enabler
.
Fig. 4.
Technical overview at the platform
