SoftLayer company

SoftLayer was born in June 2005, after spending months brainstorming ideas and architectures, and looking to address all the challenges in the current hosted solutions available.

SoftLayer is focused on being a consolidator of technology through their purchasing power and assembling the latest technologies to deliver in the quickest and most efficient manner. SoftLayer allows each customer to customize IT solutions and keep complete control over those systems while retaining the flexibility of a month-to-month commitment. As they begin their quest to create the ultimate hosting service, the SoftLayer promise is to always focus on the customer and to deliver the best service possible.

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oftLayer provides global, on-demand data center and hosting services from facilities across the U.S. We leverage best-in-class connectivity and technology to innovate industry leading, fully automated solutions that empower enterprises with complete access, control, security, and scalability.

Automated Services and Solutions
SoftLayer servers come with one of the industry’s most complete set of standard features and services at no additional cost.

Industry-Leading Customer Portal and Open API
Customer-controlled, automated management of core functions including server reboots, OS reloads, load balancing and more.

Private Network
The industry's first out-of-band management and data transfer via VPN over dedicated carriers segregated from our public network.

Integrated Geographical Diversity
Three data centers connected via private, 10G point-to-point connections, and integrated through proprietary automated tools.

True Virtual Data Center Services
SoftLayer's Innovative infrastructure, solutions, and automation capabilities provide unique advantages for virtualized solutions and a truly virtual data center.

Dedicated Servers in 2 Hours
At SoftLayer, on-demand means guaranteed delivery of most dedicated servers in about 2 hours. We also deliver additional services and features (like hardware firewalls and load balancing) in real time, either as part of the initial order or any time they are needed.

SoftLayer Difference

SoftLayer integrates best-in-class connectivity and technology into the industry’s only fully-automated platform, empowering enterprises with complete access, control, security, and scalability.

Fully-Automated Platform
We automate deployment and management of every facet of our platform—dedicated, cloud, networking, security, storage, software services, and more—to accelerate provisioning, mitigate human error, and to provide our customers with the best end-user experience possible.

Industry-Leading Customer Portal and Open API
Our automated platform (as well as all account management) is fully controlled through our easy-to-use Customer Portal and robust API. More than 200 backend services and activities are at your command, including core functions like server reboots, OS reload, load balancing, and more.

Proprietary Network Architecture
SoftLayer provides three networks integrated into one—public, private, and the industry's first out-of-band management network for access and data transfer via VPN over dedicated carriers segregated from our public network.

Integrated Geographical Diversity
SoftLayer has 11 data centers (and counting) connected via private, 10G point-to-point connections and integrated through proprietary, automated tools.

On-Demand Dedicated Servers and Cloud Computing Instances (CCIs)
We guarantee deployment of most dedicated servers in about two hours and CCIs in about 5–15 minutes, as well as retail deployment of additional services including hardware firewalls and load balancers, either as part of your initial order or whenever you need them.

Most Complete Selection of Included Standard Services
All SoftLayer servers come with one of the industry's most complete set of standard features and services at no additional cost. We carefully chose these features in order to provide powerful server solutions that require little or no additional configuration, optimizing cost and accelerating deployment.

SoftLayer Services and Solutions Highlights

Software Services
Microsoft
Red Hat
Parallels
McAfee

Virtualization
XenServer
Hyper-V
VMWare
Virtuozzo

Disaster Recovery
Snapshots
EVault
Geographic Diversity

Network Services
Load Balancing
Firewalls
CDN, Anycast DNS
IPv6, Digital Transcoding

Hardware Solutions
Intel, AMD
Single Processor
Dual Processor
Quad Processor

StorageLayer® Services
SSD, SAS, SATA, RAID, NAS, iSCSI


Network Overview
The SoftLayer network provides all customers with over 2,000 Gbps of connectivity between our data centers and 7 points of presence (PoPs). We have enabled dozens of 10Gbps network connections across our locations that are provided by 10 leading US network providers, and include multiple public peering links to dozens of additional Internet access networks.
SoftLayer's geographically diverse PoP's provide seamless, direct, private, and high speed access to our backbone network, bringing connectivity closer to the end user. You may choose the SoftLayer POP location closest to your office or end users. High-speed metro-WAN services and cross connects from providers including Equinix and Telx are also available. Our network is built from best-in-class networking infrastructure, hardware, and software with exceptional bandwidth and connectivity for the highest speed and reliability.

SoftLayer seamlessly integrates three distinct and redundant gigabit network architectures—public, private, and data center-to-data center—into the industry's first network-within-a-network topology. This design provides you maximum accessibility, security, and control for your IT infrastructure.

Data Centers
Data Center Design
All SoftLayer data centers are built upon SoftLayer’s unique pod design concept, making them functionally independent with distinct and redundant resources, and fully integrated through SoftLayer’s revolutionary network architecture. You can have direct control over your system in any SoftLayer data center and full access to all of SoftLayer’s back-end services—all fully automated and on demand.

Data Center Pod Concept

Each data center facility features one or more pods, each built to the same specifications with best-in-class methodologies to support up to 5,000 servers. Leveraging this standardization across all geographic locations, we optimize key data center performance variables including: space, power, network, personnel, and internal infrastructure.

Softlayer Facilities
Dallas60,000+Servers
Seattle10,000+Servers
Washington12,000+Servers
Houston25,000+Servers
San Jose12,000+Servers

Key Advantages

On-Demand, Virtual Data Center - Through IPMI 2.0 server technologies, secure and remote out-of-band management, and proprietary automated solutions, SoftLayer provides a highly scalable, on-demand, virtual data center experience.

Geographic Diversity - With fully-featured data centers in Seattle, Dallas, and Washington D.C., SoftLayer provides geographic diversity ideal for maintaining system and data redundancy, as well as for placing systems in the optimal physical location for traffic volume and speeds.

Redundant, Best-in-Class Infrastructure - All SoftLayer data centers maintain multiple power feeds, fiber links, dedicated generators, and battery backup. They are built from industry-leading hardware and equipment, ensuring the highest level of performance, reliability, and interoperability.


Automation Overview
Every facet of our operations—dedicated servers, power strips, firewalls, load balancers, update servers, and even our accounting system—is integrated into our proprietary management system. That means we can automate the deployment and management of everything. And then we extend access and control of it to our customers, through our easy-to-use Customer Portal and fully-featured API. You get direct access to more than 200 backend systems and activities, executed without any human intermediation, including core functions like server reboots, OS reload, load balancing, and more.

This provides advantages that other providers simply cannot deliver, including:

On-demand deployment of dedicated infrastructure
Full control of every service via Customer Portal and API
Truly integrated environments with single management system
Flexibility to deliver every service with any physical server

SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
4849 Alpha Road
Dallas, TX 75244

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