IBM Software Defined Environment

Cloud computing review

This chapter reviews types of clouds and cloud services and steps for creating them.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•“Types of clouds” on page 776

•“Types of cloud services” on page 781

•“How technical computing fits into cloud deployment models” on page 783

•“Six steps toward cloud computing” on page 788

•“The result: Dynamic cloud through Software Defined Environments” on page 791

 

 

Types of clouds

In this section, we compare a hybrid on-premises cloud to public cloud reference architecture examples, using ...