In this case they are looking for IAAS or PAS, as for your link I think they are just covering all bases.
>I'm a bit confused as to what IBM is offering.
>Here, for example they include a service based on Amazons ECC :
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/was/cloud.html#ibmcloud>
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>> Have a look at IBM SmartCloud
http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/ as usual they have their act together, this is where we are going.
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>> A lot of people have had their fingers burnt recently by going with the wrong Cloud services provider.
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>>>Currently we house our stack (web servers (IIS), database servers (MS-SQL), application servers, load balancers, firewalls, etc) in a local colocation facility. We are considering moving everything to Amazon AWS. Just curious if anyone else has made this move and what your experiences have been.
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>>>I dream of NOT owning a rack full of servers and equipment :)
Regards N Mc Donald