Cloud service models and IBM Cloud offerings

The traditional on-premises core IT has the benefits such fully customizable and few limitations among many others but the time commitment to set up and deploy can be weeks and the maintenance of this type of infrastructure can be expensive and difficult depending on the level of complexity.

IBM offers three types of services in the cloud in order to solve expenses and time in the development and maintenance of core IT: Iaas, PaaS and SaaS

IBM SoftLayer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

IBM SoftLayer provides self-service deployment of virtual and dedicated bare metal servers in secure data centers around the world. It provides the hosting infrastructure used by IBM Bluemix Public and IBM Bluemix Dedicated services. 

IBM Bluemix Platform as a Service (PaaS)

IBM Bluemix Platform as a Service is built on Cloud Foundry open source technology. It makes application development easier by allowing developers to focus on code and data alone. Bluemix Platform as a Service handles managing middleware, operating systems, and hosting infrastructure automatically. 

Software as a Service (SaaS) and IBM Cloud Marketplace

The Software as a Service model provides business applications on a ready-to-use and self- service model. The IBM Cloud Marketplace is a place where enterprise cloud customers can discover, learn, try and buy cloud services from IBM and Business Partners.

And this is all!

Soon a little more detail about the capabilities of IBM Bluemix PaaS.