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Published inOct 2016
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Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
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Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan has close to 16 years of experience in software engineering. She has been with Phoenix Global Solutions (now Tata Consultancy Services) for close to 2.5 years. She is currently with IBM India and has been with them for the last 13.5 years. During her career, she has been part of product development, support, and test teams, primarily working on enterprise middleware products. In her most recent role, she was responsible for evangelizing IBM's cloud platform as-a-service, Bluemix, and has worked with System Integrators, academia, and IBM partners to enable and support them with the adoption of IBM's cloud platform as-a-service, Bluemix. She has coauthored a redbook entitled B2B Solutions using WebSphere Partner Gateway v6.0, authored some developerWorks articles, and some blog posts on the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud platform as-a-service (Bluemix). You can find her on Twitter at @sreelathas and on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/sreelathas.
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Virtual servers


Virtual servers are a solution to spawn computing resources with specifications that suite your workload. IBM offers compute capability on Bluemix using virtual servers based on Open Stack. Virtual servers give users the flexibility to develop and host applications in an environment that is fully under their control, there are no restrictions in terms of operating system, supporting software, or other resources when using virtual servers.

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To learn more about how to create and use virtual servers, you can refer to https://ibm.biz/BdrxM4 .

From the Bluemix dashboard's Compute category, click Virtual Servers to go to the screen where you can get started with virtual servers. Click Get started now! to start creating the virtual server:

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At the time of writing this book, virtual servers on Bluemix are in beta. This beta support for new Bluemix users is closed, hence we will not be able to take you through the steps of creating the virtual server on Bluemix; however, to...

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Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan has close to 16 years of experience in software engineering. She has been with Phoenix Global Solutions (now Tata Consultancy Services) for close to 2.5 years. She is currently with IBM India and has been with them for the last 13.5 years. During her career, she has been part of product development, support, and test teams, primarily working on enterprise middleware products. In her most recent role, she was responsible for evangelizing IBM's cloud platform as-a-service, Bluemix, and has worked with System Integrators, academia, and IBM partners to enable and support them with the adoption of IBM's cloud platform as-a-service, Bluemix. She has coauthored a redbook entitled B2B Solutions using WebSphere Partner Gateway v6.0, authored some developerWorks articles, and some blog posts on the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud platform as-a-service (Bluemix). You can find her on Twitter at @sreelathas and on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/sreelathas.
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