IBM SmartCloud Storage Access V1.2 Implementation Guide

IBM SmartCloud Storage Access solution overview

More and more enterprises are changing their traditional IT infrastructure to a cloud computing infrastructure. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) gives the following definition of cloud computing:

Cloud Computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider ...