Extending cloud computing to on-premises data

A system, comprising:

• an application manifest manager for defining an application manifest that describes a computing solution for transfer from a cloud site to an on-premises computing appliance at a given non-cloud premises, the computing solution being executable for a dataset resident at the given non-cloud premises;
• a local environment description manager for defining a characterization of a local non-cloud premises environment in which the computing solution will be executed;
• an application manifest augmenter for modifying the application manifest using the characterization of the local non-cloud premises environment by at least one of adding, removing and modifying at least one component of the application manifest to provide a modified application manifest;
• a computing appliance for executing the computing solution at the local non-cloud premises environment;
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• a computing solution installer for installing the computing solution into the computing appliance at the local non-cloud premises environment according to the modified application manifest.