“The new offerings include the debut of SmartCloud Enterprise
2.0, which is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. The new
SmartCloud will also enable IBM DB2 database-as-a-service as well
other IBM applications. IBM isn’t just enabling its cloud for IBM
software; the SmartCloud also has a service for SAP ERP
applications.The SmartCloud platform is being delivered on a Linux
infrastructure with future plans to expand with Windows and IBM’s
AIX Unix. IBM is using KVM and Red Hat as the underlying technology
vendor platform.