Now that we understand the technical and financial details of IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise, we can order access to the service online and/or order additional services to expand what we are already using.
If you have not done so already, IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise can be easily ordered online at www.ibm.com/buycloud. The online order form is an easy 7-step process that takes us through all the basic and premium services you want to order, quite similar to the Monthly Cost Estimator:
Choose a plan to order. Select either Unreserved virtual machine instances or Reserved capacity packages with preferred pricing, as differentiated in the section Virtual machine instance, and click on Continue.
Select the premium services you need, such as Object storage, VPN, and Additional support, and click on Continue.
Then, you need to sign in with your IBM ID, which will be used as the user credentials to sign in to the IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise management console...