IBM Cloud : The Smart Cloud

Here comes the public cloud from IBM called SmartCloud. It is actually both public and private but I am covering only public in this post.

SmartCloud offers full range of public cloud capabilities IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Here is the summary:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Provides hardware, software and storage as Virtual Machines
• Option of reserving a VM or ‘Pay as you go’
• Choose either a public cloud solution (IBM SmartCloud Enterprise) or a managed service (IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+)
• Operating Systems available : Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server & Microsoft Windows Server
• Other Software available for Application dev environments (WebSphere), Application lifecycle(Rational), Application Server (WebSphere), Business Intelligence (Cognos), Database (DB2 only) etc.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Provides an environment for application development, deployment, management and integration in the cloud
• Development  : Rational Tools
• Deployment   : Workload Deployer, WebSphere
• Management : Systems Director, Smart Analytics, Hosted Application Security Management
• Integration     : WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Provides solutions for following categories:
• Social Collaboration : LotusLive
• Business Process Management : Blueworks Live
• Web Analytics : Coremetrics
• Enterprise Marketing Management : Unica on Demand
• B2B Integration : Sterling
• Supply Chain Management : Sterling
• Governance Risk Compliance : AppScan
• Business Service Management : Tivoli Live