To start off with the IBM Business Partner solutions, we take a closer look at the list of IBM Business Partner images—bundled under the name Cloud ecosystem partner images. As with the IBM product images detailed earlier, these images are available off-the-shelf from the IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise public image catalog. Let's look at this list in alphabetic order:
10gen (MongoDB): This offers you a document-oriented database, as opposed to a relational database, based on the similar named open source product.
Alphinat (SmartGuide): This gives you a development platform for cloud applications. One of the powerful features of SmartGuide is that it uses visual drag-and-drop tools to quickly build your cloud applications using web dialogs, which enhance user centricity and speed of development.
AppZero: This allows you to migrate your server applications to any infrastructure cloud (IaaS), or any other traditional infrastructure for that matter. This solution...