Next to the IBM product images available in IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise, there is a wide variety of products available from IBM Business Partners. This significantly broadens the amount of readily available business functionality at your disposal.
To understand the vision of IBM on a cloud ecosystem, navigate to the IBM Cloud YouTube channel and watch the video IBM Business Partners discuss the value of partnering with IBM to win in the cloud. The YouTube channel can be found at www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C1FDD0AA474D459.
As covered briefly earlier, the IBM Business Partner solutions are two-fold:
There are the Cloud ecosystem partner images which are—like the IBM product images—readily available images from the IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise public image catalog containing IBM Business Partner software products
And there are the Ready for IBM SmartCloud Services solutions which are—unlike the other options—either solutions that need to be manually installed...