Gain efficiencies for your business-critical workloads
With IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ delivering your base infrastructure, you can begin to move toward platform as a service functionality for your mission-critical applications. Complex IT environments such as those required for SAP applications can be vastly simplified by running them on top of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ infrastructure.
Other beneficial uses of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ infrastructure include:
Web hosting
- Networking capabilities allow for deployment of web applications
- Elastic scalability and geographic reach reduce risk of uncertain capacity needs for web applications
- Enterprise-class IBM AIX® and Linux platforms allow for cost-optimised architecture
Batch processing
- More cost-effective than investing millions of dollars for a workload-optimised infrastructure tailored specifically to the requirements of the application
- Infrastructure resources available as you need them with the ability to vertically scale through a single virtual machine and to scale horizontally
- High performance architecture that includes AIX, 10 gigabyte local area network and IBM XIV® Tier 1 storage
Development and test
- Production-class infrastructure
- Match of production environment for applications running in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+
- Backup and snapshot features
- Custom networking elements allow IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ environments to connect to existing on-premises environments
- Automation of service activation reduces time to establish a new environment
- Elasticity allows for applications to be load tested and scaled for performance