Recently a short scale modified black hole metric, known as holographic
metric, has been proposed in order to capture the self-complete character of
gravity. In this paper we show that such a metric can reproduce some geometric
features expected from the quantum N-portrait beyond the semi-classical
limit. We show that for a generic N this corresponds to having an effective
energy momentum tensor in Einstein equations or, equivalently, non-local terms
in the gravity action. We also consider the higher dimensional extension of the
metric and the case of an AdS cosmological term. We provide a detailed
thermodynamic analysis of both cases, with particular reference to the
repercussions on the Hawking-Page phase transition.Comment: 36 pages, 8 figures, invited paper to the special issue "Entropy in
Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology" edited by R. Garattini for the journal
"Entropy", accepted for publication; v2 version matching that published on
the journa