-SoftLayer ist der größte IT-Infrastrukturanbieter weltweit
-Vision der Gründung: On-Demand Hosting Firma, welche sich auf Software Automatisierung fokussiert
-Gehört seit Juli 2013 zur IBM und erweitert das bestehende Cloud Portfolio
-Fokus auf den Mittelstand
Global Footprint
13 Datacenters across three continents
Only Cloud provider in the world with a global internet backbone
17 Network POPs including all major carrier exchanges worldwide
7 Tier 1 transit providers, 1400 private peers, pass about 500Gbps sustained
IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack – every compute instance and ancillary service comes dual stacked
Arbor Network & Cisco Network Analysis and DDOS Mitigation
Enterprise DNS system consisting of over 400 load balanced physical nodes across 20 global locations
20,000,000 active domains
100,000+ physical nodes – millions of virtual machines
21,000 customers in 140 countries
Robust, full featured API
SoftLayer started with the API first – our own control panel uses our API
1600 Function calls to over 200 services – industry competitors less than 100
Support Rest, SOAP, and XML-RPC interfaces
Easy integration into existing environments
Supported by SL developer network with numerous examples, downloads and plugins
SoftLayer’s own iPhone/iPad and android apps show the power of the API
There are a number of client workloads being run on SoftLayer today with the most pervasive workloads being the following.
ISVs / Production ERP / Unmanaged Production - Develop and run your key business applications, business process automation, business management and mission critical production workloads across your organization using our cloud platform with security, high availability and delivery best practices at cloud economies of scale. Enterprise Applications often require a combination of private cloud and shared cloud with high availability and resiliency. Our hosted infrastructure solutions with enterprise private cloud and managed infrastructure can help solve complex deployment needs spanning private and shared clouds. Continuous monitoring, backup/restore and availability support your high I/O intensive production applications. Rapid provisioning of your dedicated and virtual infrastructure and application stack will enable scaling enterprise applications like SAP and Oracle applications quickly. Automated backend services integrated with your legacy environment and/or other data centers will ensure redundant and fast network access with improved performance. Many cloud based ISVs have chosen our infrastructure to deploy to all their clients in a SAAS model. This delivers enterprise grade computing with scaling and cost savings for our clients.
Hosted Private Clouds - SoftLayer provides hosted enterprise private clouds built in a single tenant model and used exclusively by your organization. The private cloud can contain both bare metal and virtualized infrastructure within the same private cloud. Additionally, the private cloud provides high availability, data isolation, security, and other key features. SoftLayer support multiple virtualization technologies including Openstack, VMWare and Citrix.
High Performance Computing - The need for High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities is rapidly crossing all industries and all company sizes. SoftLayer offers industry leading HPC cluster technologies required to run HPC applications from entry-level to the most demanding compute intensive workloads. The SoftLayer HPC platform delivers performance by offering bare-metal/physical servers, from single to quad processors, and octo-core powerhouses. GPU-powered high-performance computing nodes are also available.
Big Data Analytics - Big Data is all about the storage, management and analysis of the massive amount of data that is being generated by every organization in every industry. The Big Data solutions at SoftLayer provided businesses with the robust storage, network, and bare metal compute resources required to deliver on the promise of Big Data in an on-demand fashion. SoftLayer has a robust and scalable infrastructure as a service solution to support your solution. If you don’t have a Big Data strategy, SoftLayer offers standard big data configurations that contain solutions from our partners in the big data market; IBM Big Data, Hadoop, Cloudera, 10gen and Basho. SoftLayer even offers a full managed Big Data PaaS solution from Cloudant.
Social Business - SoftLayer provides the ideal platform for hosting social business applications for global enterprise customers. Social business applications are elastic in nature due to business operational requirements and therefore make good candidates for being hosted on a cloud platform like SoftLayer. Collaboration tools leveraged by businesses around the world improve productivity and efficiency of users across the enterprise. Examples of collaboration software include: Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, SlideShare and Web Conferencing.
Mobile Applications - Build your mobile applications on a global cloud infrastructure at Internet scale. Our platform drives the cloud’s most innovative services and the world’s most dynamic applications. SoftLayer’s platform allowed Magma Mobile to build a scalable mobile marketing platform that receives more than 10 million page views a month. Whether designing software applications to run on smartphones, tablets or other devices, SoftLayer provides the ideal platform to build and host mobile applications. Our unique network design and fully automated platform lets you unify any of our platform services, physical or virtual, into a seamless solution controlled through a single management system.
Development and Test - Develop and test your business applications quickly using your development toolset. SoftLayer can also help you deploy with API’s and DevOps runtime services environment on SoftLayer’s infrastructure that supports bare metal and virtualized infrastructures in a single management model. This offers the ability for business applications to be developed and deployed in the same operating environment to improve the speed, scalability and overall cost of developing and deploying new applications. The SoftLayer platform services framework provided on the cloud includes runtime environments such as Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails and services such as MongoDB, Redis, MySQL and Postgres for rapid project initiation, team collaboration and automated deployment.
Web Applications / e-Commerce - Build your e-Commerce application on the leading cloud infrastructure. You can also deploy any n-tier application that comes with demanding requirements. Our platform powers your application infrastructure providing you a solid foundation to handle fluctuating traffic with the right security at a reduced cost. Our unique network design and fully automated platform lets you unify any of our services, physical or virtual, into a seamless solution controlled through a single management system. Key requirements for fast growing web companies are difficulty to scale up and down based on user patterns retaining performance attributes and managing the environment securely. SoftLayer’s hybrid environment offers a potential solution, with dedicated servers for databases securely integrated with virtual clouds for front end transactions.