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IBM SmartCloud Integration

IBM SmartCloud provides enterprise customers with trusted infrastructure and platform services which can be consumed via self-service (SmartCloud Enterprise), or via managed services (SmartCloud Enterpise+). SmartCloud Enterprise gives enterprise customers an agile and shared infrastructure in which they can develop new solutions and/or consume SaaS offerings which could include application services provided by the SmartCloud Platform. SmartCloud Enterprise+ gives enterprise customers a private and hosted infrastructure and/or platform which they can either leverage as an extension of their own Enterprise IT environment (client controlled) and/or augment their Enterprise IT environments with a set of robust managed services from IBM. is an agile cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) designed to provide rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments, well suited for development and test activities and other dynamic workloads.

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Term	Description
Virtual Application	Virtual application patterns define a complete set of platform resources to fulfill a business need, including web applications, databases, user registries, and more. These components can be created when the pattern is deployed or they might exist. These components and the relationships between them are defined in the Virtual Application Builder.
Virtual Application Builder	The Virtual Application Builder is a web interface that allows you to define, create, and deploy your virtual application patterns.
Pattern Type	A pattern type is a collection of plug-ins that identify a specific solution and topology.