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Deploy an app to the cloud at lunch hour
(and still have time to eat)

IBM SmartCloud Application Services is IBM’s platform as a service (PaaS) that powers fast development and deployment of applications to the cloud with a suite of cloud-based development tools, workload patterns, middleware and databases. IBM PaaS runs on the IBM self-service public cloud, SmartCloud Enterprise.

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Get WebSphere-based applications to the cloud fast

with IBM SmartCloud Application Workload Service

IBM SmartCloud Application Workload Service (SCAWS) eliminates the tedium of managing middleware and infrastructure, enabling IT to more easily, quickly and repeatedly deploy WebSphere-based applications to IBM's public cloud, SmartCloud Enterprise.

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Accelerate and simplify getting to cloud with patterns

Core to IBM PaaS technology and built on years of IBM expertise, patterns are templates consisting of software and virtual machine resources. Patterns radically streamline the set-up and management of hardware and software resources, enabling IT teams to quickly deploy complex application environments to the cloud with validated, high-quality and consistent results.

Scale apps with policy-based automated scaling

Patterns have policies to provide powerful automation, including a routing policy for load balancing, a log policy, a JVM policy, and a scaling policy for automated rule-based scaling. By setting the scaling policy, a deployed pattern can dynamically scale depending on rules (for example, based on request response time).

Scaling type. CPU based. Scaling in and out when CPU usage is out of threshold range(%): Range: 20% - 80%. Instance number range of scaling in/out: Range: 1 - 10. Minimum time (seconds) to trigger add or remove: 300.
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Capture your own expertise with customized patterns

SCAWS enables you to develop customized patterns to meet your business application needs, converting your own expertise into reusable templates. Once designed, your patterns are available in SCAWS (or PureSystems) to automate a wide range of IT tasks.

Move apps between private, public and hybrid

SCAWS is based on IBM Workload Deployer (IWD) (US), the same deployment engine used by IBM PureApplication System. By using SCAWS, you can easily port your workload patterns to another environment managed by either IBM Workload Deployer or the IBM PureApplication System.

Delivery becomes a team sport

with IBM SmartCloud Application Collaborative Lifecycle Managment Service

IBM SmartCloud Application Collaborative Lifecycle Management Service (CLMS) is a set of seamlessly integrated tools that provide a real-time cloud-based collaborative environment for accelerated application development and delivery. Based on proven IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management our pay-as-you-go service coordinates activities across business and system requirements, design, development, build, test and delivery—improving productivity and time to delivery.
 

 

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In-context collaboration

Collaborate on designs, requirements, plans, code and tasks to make decisions from a single source of truth.

Real-time planning

No more garbage in, garbage out. Plans linked to real work…and everyone knows everything, 24/7.

 

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Lifecycle traceability

Gain insights that you didn't have before and make better decisions to improve delivery predictability.

Development intelligence

Set measurable goals and track them easily. Know exactly what's going on in your project. No more surprises.

 

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The IBM SmartCloud partner ecosystem

IBM is committed to building and supporting a powerful ecosystem of innovative cloud partners that work with IBM SmartCloud Application Services (PaaS) in two distinct ways. First, our partners leverage IBM SmartCloud Application Services to develop solutions for their end customers and deliver them in a software-as-a-service model. Second, the SmartCloud ecosystem significantly extends the breadth and depth of our application development capabilities. For example:

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IBM’s partnership with ZEND provides a PHP application pattern that enables the use of PHP with IBM PaaS—meeting the demands of the professional cloud developer community.PaaS platforms

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Services accelerate your journey to cloud

IBM Software Services for Cloud provides unrivaled IBM software expertise and assets to help deploy your workloads in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments. Our seasoned experts will help you tap the power of cloud with:

  • IBM workload pattern technology to accelerate development
  • Pre-built IBM patterns and custom patterns to support workloads
  • Application migration onto an IBM platform to extend functionality
  • Integration of patterns and cloud applications with existing systems
  • Support for custom-built patterns long term

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Unmatched platform flexibility, control and choice

With IBM’s broad and integrated family of cloud technologies, you can get a cloud application platform that’s built to meet your unique requirements. Develop and test application patterns on SmartCloud Application Services, and then deploy applications with:

  • IBM PureApplication System (US)

    Use IBM PaaS in your own private cloud with our expert integrated system for private cloud application management and deployment.

  • IBM Workload Deployer (US)

    A hardware appliance that provides IBM middleware virtual images and patterns to easily create, deploy and manage application environments in a private cloud.

  • IBM SmartCloud Enterprise

    IBM SmartCloud Application Services PaaS runs on, and automatically deploys virtual resources to, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, IBM's public IaaS.


All three solutions share common core IBM PaaS technology and use IBM's pre-configured patterns of middleware and virtual resources to make the deployment of applications fast and repeatable.

Related SmartCloud offerings

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Infographic: PaaS insights

IBM interviewed people from 1500 companies to learn about the benefits of adopting PaaS.

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What is PaaS?

Platform as a service (PaaS) provides a cloud-based platform for building and running software applications without the cost and difficulty of buying and managing the underlying infrastructure. PaaS promises faster, more cost-effective application development and delivery. PaaS is supported by infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and is a key enabler for software as a service (SaaS).

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DevOps and IBM PaaS

DevOps recognizes that successful application development today requires intimate multi-departmental collaboration. SmartCloud Application Services help bridge the gap between development/test and operations processes. Collaborative tools support the DevOps agile service delivery approach, accelerating application deployment from weeks to minutes.

  • Develop applications using Rational Application Developer (RAD) with Collaborative Lifecycle Management service
  • Deploy from RAD using SmartCloud Provisioning to the public cloud, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, or to your private cloud via IBM Optimized Systems
  • Eliminate bottlenecks and accelerate the collaboration between development/test and operations with a lifecycle dashboard view of application status

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PaaS FAQs

What does PaaS offer my enterprise?

PaaS accelerates the development and deployment of web applications by simplifying the installation, setup, configuration and support for operating systems, middleware and application tools. PaaS allows enterprises to focus on building better applications faster, rather than being distracted by the complexity of middleware and infrastructure. Most important, organizations using PaaS retain the ability to customize their applications (which cannot be done with applications consumed in a SaaS model) while enjoying the economy, flexibility, scalability and rapid time to value that cloud enables.

What are the benefits of IBM SmartCloud Application Services?

Benefits include

  • More flexibility and control with an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model
  • Increased agility due to self-service access to application development tools, middleware and databases, all optimized to run on virtual infrastructure
  • Simplified deployment and management of applications with automatic scaling that adds capacity based on load
  • Accelerated time to value by using rapidly-deployed, flexible and scalable resources that empower efficient application development in the cloud

What’s the difference between infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and PaaS?

IaaS focuses on cloud-based delivery of base IT infrastructure and services, including servers (with virtual machines and operating systems), storage, network and security.

PaaS focuses on delivering application development and deployment services, including cloud-based application development and lifecycle management, application environments for running workloads, application resources (like databases) delivered as a service, and cloud-based application packages for CRM, ERP and supply-chain applications.

IBM SmartCloud Application Services hide the complexity of the infrastructure underneath the platform services by managing the virtual machines, storage, network and data center facilities behind the scenes. This allows users to focus on developing, deploying and managing better applications with powerful cloud-based application services.

How does PaaS from IBM, SmartCloud Application Services, compare to competitors, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Beanstalk and Oracle Public Cloud?

IBM is the only provider of cloud services that offers all of the following:

  • Enterprise-grade security
  • Open Java support
  • Cross-platform support without fear of vendor lock-in
  • Comprehensive application infrastructure and managed services that enable accelerated development and deployment of applications to the cloud
  • Years of experience managing and hosting mission-critical enterprise applications

What makes IBM SmartCloud Application Services, the PaaS platform from IBM, particularly attractive to CIOs?

CIOs like the fact that we offer enterprise-grade security, open Java support, cross-platform support with no vendor lock-in, and a comprehensive set of application infrastructure and managed services that enable accelerated development and deployment of applications to the cloud.

What does IBM SmartCloud Application Services offer to application development managers and enterprise application developers?

Application development managers will be interested in the remote workstation option, which will allow them to utilize a suite of hosted application development tools to design, develop, maintain and manage releases of application coding in the cloud.

IBM SmartCloud Application Services will run Java EE enterprise applications. Enterprise application developers can easily use our virtual application template to model an enterprise application, saving significant time and cost with pre-installed, pre-configured application servers, database servers, and powerful new IBM patterns (templates for multi-server environments deployed as integrated, atomic units) that streamline enterprise application deployment to the cloud.

Why will independent software vendors (ISVs) want to use a PaaS offering like IBM SmartCloud Application Services?

ISVs will be able to develop code quickly and seamlessly within a global team-based environment. They’ll also be able to reduce costs by provisioning infrastructure as needed and by integrating with existing applications or resources, whether on-premise or in the cloud.