SoftLayer Private Clouds – A Cloud to Call Your Own
Those of us who’ve been in this industry for years have seen computing evolve pretty significantly, especially recently. We started with dedicated servers running a single operating system, and we were...
View ArticleNever Break Up with Your Data Again
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could keep the parts of a relationship that you like and “move on” from the parts you don’t? You’d never have to go through the awkward “getting to know each other” phase...
View ArticleSoftLayer Asia – A Technology Market Full of Opportunity
The last few months have been extremely busy for SoftLayer Asia. SLayers from our Singapore office have been participating in all kinds of events — from small developer group meetups to massive...
View Article2012 at SoftLayer: A Year-End Review
It’s already December 18, so you’ve probably read a few dozen “Best of 2012″ and “Looking Back on 2012″ articles around the web by now. I hope that you indulge me as I add one more tally to that list …...
View ArticleCedexis: SoftLayer “Master Model Builder”
Think of the many components of our cloud infrastrucutre as analogous to LEGO bricks. If our overarching vision is to help customers “Build the Future,” then our products are “building blocks” that can...
View ArticleIBM to Acquire SoftLayer
As most have seen by now, this morning we announced IBM’s intent to acquire SoftLayer. It’s not just big news, it’s great news for SoftLayer and our customers. I’d like to take a moment and share a...
View ArticleThe Importance of Providing Startups a Sandbox
With the global economy in its current state, it’s more important than ever to help inspired value-creators acquire the tools needed to realize their ideas, effect change in the world, and create...
View ArticleDeconstructing SoftLayer’s Three-Tiered Network
When Sun Microsystems VP John Gage coined the phrase, “The network is the computer,” the idea was more wishful thinking than it was profound. At the time, personal computers were just starting to show...
View ArticleThe “Unified Field Theory” of Storage
This guest blog was contributed by William Rocca of OS NEXUS. OS NEXUS makes the Quantastor Software Defined Storage platform designed to tackle the storage challenges facing cloud computing, Big Data...
View Article2013 at SoftLayer: Year in Review
I’m going into my third year at SoftLayer and it feels like “déjà vu all over again” to quote Yogi Berra. The breakneck pace of innovation, cloud adoption and market consolidation — it only seems to be...
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