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Navigate and Use the IBM SmartCloud portfolio for building cloud solutions
Overview
- Understand the basic concepts of cloud computing and learn about common cloud standards
- Learn about the IBM SmartCloud portfolio with its many facets
- Full of clearly explained concepts, step-by-step instructions and hands-on exercises
In Detail
IBM, the oldest technology company in the world, has a wide variety of powerful cloud services to offer from its IBM SmartCloud portfolio. Being able to differentiate them, and knowing how to use them efficiently gives you a competitive advantage over others.
Starting with the basics of cloud computing, this guide covers the wide range of cloud components, services, and solutions in the IBM SmartCloud portfolio. Following on from this, youll be introduced to the public , Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud service - IBM SmartCloud Enterprise; before peeking into the future of IBM cloud services. Using this book, you will discover the advantage of both traditional enterprise computing and public cloud computing.
You will explore IBMs portfolio of cloud computing solutions ranging from infrastructure services (IaaS), to business services (BPaaS), and private to public cloud. You will be taken through a number of in-depth use-cases, examples, and hand-on exercises that will help you to take advantage of infrastructure as a service solution IBM SmartCloud Enterprise quickly and easily.
You will learn everything you need to know about the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, including how to take advantage of cloud computing within your organization.
What you will learn from this book
- Navigate the IBM SmartCloud portfolio, which contains a wide variety of cloud computing services
- Explore the advantages of cloud computing, and the most important cloud standardization bodies
- Create virtual servers and virtual storage
- Create images, and perform basic functions using the self-service management console
- Set up virtually any application topology.
- Perform a cost estimate for your cloud system within minutes
- Establish object storage to store terabytes of files and other important data in a highly secure way
Approach
A practical, user-friendly guide that provides an introduction to cloud computing using IBM SmartCloud, along with a thorough understanding of resource management in a cloud environment.
Who this book is written for
This book is great for anyone who wants to get a grasp of what cloud computing is and what IBM SmartCloud has to offer. If you are an IT specialist, IT architect, system administrator, or a developer who wants to thoroughly understand the cloud computing resource model, this book is ideal for you. No prior knowledge of cloud computing is expected.
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Edwin Schouten is a Master IT Architect for IBM Global Technology Services. He is a Council Member and the Domain Champion for Cloud Computing in the IBM Benelux Technical Experts Council (TEC).
He has 15 years of experience in IT, holds a Master of Science in IT Architecture, is the Open Group Master Certified IT Architect, IBM Expert Level IT Architect, and IBM Certified Solution Advisor for Cloud Computing Architecture V3.
He is also a frequent speaker/panelist at cloud computing events, active member of Dutch cloud standardization bodies Platform Outsourcing Nederland and NEN, and blogger on his own website, edwinschouten.nl, with featured posts on Wired Insights, The Atlantic, Thoughts on Cloud, and Computable.nl.
You can reach Edwin at <> and his Twitter handle is @schoutene.
First and foremost I want to thank Martin van der Meer for his guidance and support during the writing of this book and my career development in general. I also want to specifically mention Rahul Jain for his reviewing efforts of this book. Other IBM SmartCloud team members to acknowledge are Dominique Vernier, Kit Linton, Frederic Mottiat, Alex Amies, Andrew Jones, Alfred Schilder, and Tiffany Townsend, and not to forget the authors of the developerWorks articles that are referenced in this book.
Last but not least, I want to thank my wife Esther for her support throughout my many endeavors, and my wonderful children Daan and Sofie for the joy they bring to my life. I also want to thank my parents, Paul and Tine; sister, Cynthia; other close relatives; and friends who have supported me.
Luis A. Guirigay is an IT Architect at IBM with over 15 years experience in deployment, administration, support, analysis, design, and development of business applications focusing on delivering excellence with industry leading IBM platforms. His areas of expertise include deployment, infrastructure, high availability, disaster recovery, development, system tuning, troubleshooting, and everything else related to IBM Social and Collaboration solutions.
He is an IBM Certified Administrator for virtually all versions of IBM Connections, WebSphere Portal, Domino, Sametime, and Quickr as well as an IBM Certified Developer in Domino and an IBM Certified Instructor. Luis has published multiple developerWorks articles and IBM Redbooks related to Domino, Workplace, DB2, and System i. His speaking engagements include multiple User Group Conferences in North America as well in IBM Connect (also known as Lotusphere) and IBM workshops in the United States and LATAM. You can follow Luis at @lguiriga or e-mail him at <>.
He has also worked on a few other books before, such as Implementing IBM Lotus Domino 7 for i5/OS (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247311.html), Preparing for and Tuning the SQL Query Engine on DB2 for i5/OS (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246598.html?Open), Deploying IBM Workplace Collaboration Services on the IBM System i5 Platform (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246640.html?Open), and IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User's Guide (http://www.packtpub.com/ibm-lotus-sametime-8-essentials-a-users-guide/book).
Even though being a reviewer for a book doesn't take nearly as much time as writing it, it still takes some time away from your family. So thanks to them for allowing me to take this time, which enabled me to be a part of this great book.
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IBM SmartCloud Essentials takes you through the basics of cloud computing and covers the wide range of cloud components, services, and solutions in the IBM SmartCloud portfolio. This portfolio offers cloud solutions ranging from public to private cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) to business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS) solutions.
To make the concepts used in cloud computing more tangible, we zoom in to do a gradual deep-dive into one of IBM's public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud solutions; IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. Throughout the book you will gradually build an understanding of the concepts and practical uses of IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, entwined with building some hands-on experience along the way.
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