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IBM Smart Business services

Development and Test

IBM Smart Business Test Cloud (US) - Test applications in a secure cloud environment behind your corporate firewall.

  • Automated, self-service provisioning reduces IT labor cost for configuration, operation, and monitoring
  • Simplified management reduces risk and improves quality

IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud (beta) (US) - Complimentary access to elastic compute resources to support and accelerate your development and test efforts, featuring IBM Software Delivery Services.

  • Eliminate provisioning delays with on-demand access to virtual images
  • Improve software utilization and lower deployment costs

Information Workloads

IBM Smart Analytics Cloud (US) - Access and analyze multisource data with this on-site analytics solution for the large enterprise.

  • Reduce business intelligence delivery costs through centralization and standardization

IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud (US) - Manage massive information demands while reducing costs with this robust storage cloud.

  • Enterprise-wide file sharing and collaboration.
  • Build cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

Desktop Workloads

IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud (US) - Delivers a resilient and secure, standards-based desktop environment behind your firewall or on the IBM Cloud.

  • Rapidly scale IT infrastructure to meet changing business requirements
  • Lower TCO by improving asset management and utilization, operational flexibility, and reduced energy costs
  • Consumption-based pricing matches operational cost with business demand

IBM Smart Business End User Support - IBM Service Assist (US) - Increase productivity and reduce costs with this self-help service desk portal for IT support. Ideal for supporting a mobile, geographically dispersed workforce.

Collaboration

IBM LotusLive™ - World-class social networking services and online collaboration tools, including file sharing, Web conferencing, and instant messaging—all through your Web browser.

IBM LotusLive iNotes™ - Enable the entire enterprise with secure, cloud-based service for email, scheduling and contact management. Reduce costs and overcome resource constraints while maintaining corporate email policies and control.

Infrastructure Services

IBM Computing on Demand (CoD)™ (US) - Access IBM compute clusters (IBM System x, BladeCenter, System p, and Storage) on an hourly, weekly, or yearly rental basis. IBM CoD offers a highly flexible computing infrastructure on a "pay for use" basis.

Business Services

Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) (US) - Validate the resiliency of any company or service provider delivering applications or services.

BCRS Information Protection Services (US) - Secure, automatic, cloud-based backup and recovery service for your PCs and laptops.