Now we have reached the final chapter of the book, let's reflect what we have learned and look forward, where possible.
We have covered the IBM® SmartCloud® portfolio from where we zoomed in on IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise to get an in-depth view of its history, use-cases, and advanced features. We used IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise exemplary to get a better understanding and build.
In this chapter we widen our view again, like in Chapter 1, IBM® SmartCloud®, to the platform as a service solutions on top of IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise and take a little peek into the foreseeable future.
As mentioned in previous chapters, with IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise, you gain access to both infrastructure services (IaaS) and platform services (PaaS), all in one cloud solution. The platform services, available through the SCE management console under Service Instances, are all bundled under the name of IBM® SmartCloud® Application Services.
Although we cannot fully predict the...