Cloud Computing is the delivery of computing services, servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, intelligence and more. Particularly over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay only for the cloud services you use.
Cloud Hosting is the procurement of computing resources from a cloud computing provider or facility to host data, services, and/or solutions. It’s an Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) form of a delivery model — it provides a suite of remote/virtual services. As such, these forms of the IaaS delivery models are delivered on an on-demand basis.
There are Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications for fundamental business technologies. Such as email, sales management, customer relationship management (CRM), financial management, human resource management (HRM), billing and collaboration.
PaaS, or Platform-as-a-Service, is a cloud computing model that provides customers a complete platform—hardware, software, and infrastructure. Basically, for developing, running, and managing applications without the cost, complexity, and inflexibility. Especially, of building and maintaining that platform on-premises.
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a form of cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. IaaS is one of the 3 main categories of cloud computing, alongside Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-service (PaaS). In an IaaS model, a cloud provider hosts the infrastructure components traditionally present in an on-premises data center.
A lot of information is available about IBM SmartCloud Enterprise capabilities, but it’s not always easy to find. This blog post contains an overview of the capabilities of, and how to use and configure IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. Especially, to fit your business needs and add the most value.
