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3.2.2 Securely connect system of record workloads to cloud native
applications
IBM API Connect™ and IBM WebSphere® Connect provide secure connectivity to
cloud-based applications, giving clients the ability to rapidly develop new applications and
services, accelerating their time to value. IBM Power to Cloud services can help clients get
started with these solutions and to design new applications that use IBM Bluemix®. This
application enables clients to rapidly build, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while
being enhanced by a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks.
3.2.3 IBM Cloud Starter Pack
To help clients get started with their hybrid cloud infrastructure, the Power E850C offering
includes entitlement of a POWER8 Linux bare metal system in the IBM Cloud (SoftLayer®).
Customers are entitled to six months of a C812L-M POWER8 Linux bare metal with the
following configuration:
10-core POWER8 processor 3.49 GHz
256 GB RAM
Two 4 TB SATA HDD
Ubuntu Linux
3.2.4 Flexible capacity on demand
With the purchase of a new Power E850C server, clients can now convert previously
purchased capacity (Elastic COD Processor Days) to SoftLayer Linux on Power bare metal
monthly server usage.
This application allows you to preserve investments after which a customer will be able to
convert excess unused capacity into PowerLinux bare metal servers that run on public cloud.
This feature has the following possible uses:
Offload workloads to the public cloud to make room for critical private cloud workloads
Provide more processing capacity for applications during peaks
Use the public cloud as a DR site for the Linux on Power virtual machines
Move development virtual machines to public cloud
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