This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides a description of the IBM Platform Computing Cloud Services and describes a scenario about how IBM Platform LSF® multicluster and IBM Spectrum™ Scale Active File Manager help manage the usage of cloud services in an efficient way.

This paper provides factual and comparative economics of deploying a solution on-premises versus in the cloud, and includes information about the benefits of on-premises versus cloud solution deployments.

IBM Platform Computing Cloud Services: Purpose and benefits

IBM Platform Computing Cloud Services architecture

IBM Spectrum Scale high performance services

IBM Platform Symphony services

IBM High Performance Services for Hadoop

Platform LSF

Hybrid Platform LSF on-premises with a cloud service scenario

Data management on hybrid clouds