As we discovered in Chapter 1, IBM® SmartCloud®, IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise has all the fundamental capabilities required to support a broad spectrum of born-on-the-web applications for both production and non-production deployments.
This solution, developed for organizations that want a low-cost cloud environment suitable for running moderate-risk applications, can help dramatically reduce the client's IT costs. Some examples uses are as follows:
Development and test activities
Batch processing
Web hosting
Features in IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise such as pay-for-use, self-service, and rapid elasticity also enable support for use-cases in analytics, collaboration, and performance testing.
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A good set of videos on popular uses can be found on the IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/IBMSmartCloudEprise.
Before we see what we need to do to get one of these popular uses up and running in IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise, let us elaborate on what we have learned...