In the previous chapter, we have already touched upon IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise briefly as one of the two (publicly) managed IaaS solutions available.
To recap, IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise is a flexible computing IaaS solution designed to provide clients with rapid access to enterprise class cloud environments. The service provides us with a SCE management console, extensive image catalog containing IBM and non-IBM software products, and the ability to upload our own images, while allowing the user full control over all the resources provisioned above the managed hypervisor.
IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise has been available since May 2010, matching the needs of the market at that time by primarily focusing on test and development workloads. One year later, in May 2011, the service offered full support to production workloads as well.
To improve the support for production workloads, IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise officially achieved certification of the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 standard in...