As we have seen in the previous chapter, IBM® has a wide variety of cloud computing solutions in the market. From this chapter on, this book will cover IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise, one of IBM's public IaaS solutions. The information in the following chapters is based on the current version of IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise (at time of writing this book, it is version 2.3).
Although a lot of information is available about IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise's capabilities, it's not always easy to find. This book will provide you with an overview of those capabilities, and how to use and configure IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise to fit your business needs.
In this chapter, we will start to understand the basic concepts and learn about the basic and premium services available. We will learn how to work with the basic functions by navigating to the self-service portal called SCE management console and how to quickly get a cost estimate for any specific configuration. Lastly...