SoftLayer is a global hosting provider that offers public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions through its standardized modular infrastructure platform. It has data centers in 13 locations around the world and a robust API that allows customers to automate provisioning and management of servers, storage, networking and other resources on its unified platform. SoftLayer serves over 21,000 customers across industries with a focus on providing flexible, on-demand computing infrastructure and services.

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IBM Cloud
Public. Private. Dynamic Hybrid.
Think it. Build it. Tap into it.
Jamie Thomas
GM, Software Defined
Systems
George Karidis
Chief Strategy Officer,
SoftLayer
Robert LeBlanc
SVP, Software
Middleware Group
Tom Rosamilia
SVP, Systems & Technology
Group and IBM Integrated
Supply Chain
Business Process
as a Service
Business Process
Solutions
Application Application Application Application Application
Software
as a Service
Platform
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
External
Ecosystem
Industry Collaboration
Human
Resources
Big Data &
Analytics
Commerce Marketing
Development Big Data &
Analytics
Security Integration Mobile Social
Traditional
Workloads
Built using open standards
Compute Storage Networking
Built using open standards

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George Karidis
COO SoftLayer
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A Global Hosting Leader
Top 100,000 Sites
By Hosting Provider
Source: Hostcabi.net
2005
21,000 in 140 countries
100,000
22,000,000
1 percent globally

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Global Footprint
13
Data Centers
17
Network
Locations

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Standardized, Modular Infrastructure One Platform
to Serve a Broad Range of Customer Requirements
 Highly flexible architecture
 One platform for public cloud servers,
private clouds, bare metal servers
 Complete integration
 Unified systems management & API
 Build hybrid, distributed, high-performance
architectures and manage from a single
pane of glass
 Pay by the hour or the month for a truly
variable IT operations model
x86 Server
Bare Metal
Private Clouds
Virtual Servers
Public Clouds
Hybrid Clouds
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Triple-Network Architecture
 High-performance public network with transit from multiple tier-1 carriers
 Secure OOB management via VPN
 Private network for intra-application and inter-facility communications,
access to shared services
 Native IPv6 support
 Virtual racks for integrated management
 Complete suite of network services

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Robust, Full-featured API
Improves customer control, reduces error, increases flexibility
SoftLayer API provides 1,600 function calls to over 200 services
Supports REST, SOAP & XML-RPC interfaces
Enables full auto-scaling implementations
Comprehensive documentation, libraries and support
Functions include:
Automatic server deployment & provisioning
Reboots & reloads
Hardware configuration
DNS
Network
Storage
Security scans & monitoring

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Complete Control
 Mobile and Web-based management portals
 Purchase, provision, deploy & manage infrastructure
 Access to services, tools, automation & tutorials
 Secure access via VPN to management network
 Two-factor authentication to Web portal

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A Unified Platform with Common Management
and Programming Interfaces
Common command and control interface across a unified architecture
Combine bare-metal servers, public cloud instances and private cloud deployments into distributed hybrid architectures
and manage from a single control pane and application programming interface (API)
All deployed on-demand and provisioned in real-time
Ideally suited to big data deployments, high input and output (I/O) and latency-sensitive apps
Common user interface and API
Web Mobile API
Bare metal servers Visual server instances Private clouds
x86 Data Center Pod x86 Data Center Pod x86 Data Center Pod
Unique triple-network architecture allows seamless communication across distributed environments
Infrastructure management system provides orchestration and automation

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21,000 Leading-edge Customers*
Marketing and Digital Media
Mobile & Communications
Bump Voxer Instapaper Yelp
Hosting & Service Providers Enterprise
Social Games and Entertainment
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
*SoftLayer references

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