The IBM SmartCloud Enterprise is an agile cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) designed to provide rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments, well suited for any business with dynamic workloads and needs for:

• Application development
• Functional and non-functional testing
• Collaboration with partners and vendors
• Web hosting
• Storage
• Application pilots
• An infrastructure-as-a-service product that provides enterprise-class IT infrastructure offering control, reliability, data security and massive scalability in performance and capacity
• IBM owned and managed multi-tenant, highly virtualized, shared infrastructure with deployment through multiple delivery centers
• Secured access through the Internet (IPS/IDS, SSH/HTTPS, VPN/VLAN, Web identity) to a management infrastructure and content delivered in compliance with IBM security standards
• Virtualized IT infrastructure resources delivered on a usage-based pay as you go billing model