Over time IBM will add other offerings geared to specifictypesofapplications, but it wanted to started with environments that appeal to firms wanting to consolidate and control a mix of existing applications.
CIOs and CTOs should keep their eye on the evolution toward maturity of the public cloud and keep close track of the costs of the private cloud so that rational decisions can be made about where to provision specifictypesofapplications and functionality.
Interestingly, these capabilities almost mirror U.S. doctrine on IW. While the views on specifictypesof IW differ somewhat between various analysts, several discrete IW applications have dominated recent discourse from the late 1990s to the present.