Network management systems and methods

A network management system comprising:

• one or more processors communicatively coupled to a plurality of domains, wherein each domain has a plurality of resources including physical resources and/or virtual resources executed on corresponding computing devices, wherein each domain provides a plurality of services including one or more of computing services, storage services, network services, and combinations thereof via the plurality of resources;
• memory having one or more executable instructions configured to cause the processor to
• identify a collection of the plurality of resources and/or the plurality of services as a fusion object;
• manage the fusion object via a set of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to perform management of the collection of the plurality of resources and/or the plurality of services as a single manageable entity;
• and
• update the fusion object based on one or more of network topology changes in the plurality of domains, resource changes in the plurality of domains, and service changes in the plurality of domains.

A computer program product embodied in any tangible medium of expression having computer-usable program code embodied in the medium comprising:

• first computer-usable program code for identifying a collection of a plurality of resources and/or a plurality of services as a fusion object, wherein the first computer-usable program code is executable in a network management system which is a computing device communicatively coupled to a plurality of domains, wherein each domain has a plurality of resources including physical resources and/or virtual resources executed on corresponding computing devices, wherein each domain provides a plurality of services including one or more of computing services, storage services, network services, and combinations thereof via the plurality of resources;
• second computer-usable program code for managing the fusion object via a set of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to perform management of the collection of the plurality of resources and/or the plurality of services as a single manageable entity;
• and
• third computer-usable program code for updating the fusion object based on one or more of network topology changes in the plurality of domains, resource changes in the plurality of domains, and service changes in the plurality of domains.