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Founded in 2005, SoftLayer 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. With this insightful strategy and our peerless technical execution, we have created the truly virtual data center—and made traditional hosting and managed/unmanaged services obsolete.
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Feb 03, 2012
Bringing server hardware to a “Cloud Expo” is like bringing a knife to a gun fight. Why would anyone care about hardware? Isn’t “the cloud” a magical land where servers and data centers cease to exist and all that matters is that your hardware-abstracted hypervisor can scale elastically on demand? You might be surprised how...
Feb 02, 2012
I’ve always enjoyed SNL’s satirization of those infomercials where a guy is slightly inconvenienced by a product that just doesn’t seem to work to his satisfaction. As a result, it shows him getting frustrated and pulling his hair out … But it doesn’t stop there. He then gets into his vehicle, drives recklessly down the...
Feb 01, 2012
Our customers are not concerned with technology for technology’s sake. Information technology should serve a purpose; it should function as an integral means to a desired end. Understandably, our customers are focused, first and foremost, on their application architecture and infrastructure. They want, and need, the freedom and flexibility to design their applications to their...
Jan 30, 2012
Working at SoftLayer has its perks, and one of my favorite perks to enjoy over the last three years is the ability to use a week and a half of my vacation time to travel over to Hawaii. I normally visit the Lahaina area on Maui, as I have family over there that operate Lahaina...
Jan 27, 2012
As a bit of an introduction, I began my career as a GSP and hosted LAMP sites with WHM for SMBs … NBD. If you’re not fluent in “Tech Geek Acronym,” that sentence may as well be written in Greek. If I were to de-acronym it, I’d say, “I began my career as a Game...
Jan 26, 2012
Last year, we announced that we would be the first provider to offer the Intel E7-4800 series server. This bad boy has record-breaking compute power, tons of room for RAM and some pretty amazing performance numbers, and as of right now, it’s one of the most powerful servers on the market. Reading about the server...
Jan 24, 2012
The Internet community’s rallying cry has been heard by the United States Congress and Senate. Last week, we reported that SOPA was temporarily being put on the shelf, but now Congressman Lamar Smith has pulled the bill altogether, stating that “until there is wider agreement on a solution,” the bill will not be reintroduced. On...
Jan 23, 2012
It was a cold winter day, a little over two years ago I was a nervous wreck walking into SoftLayer’s headquarters for my first day of work. I didn’t know what to suspect. I was immediately put on apparel, in other words known as “swag” distribution. Not soon after I became the “go to” girl...
Jan 20, 2012
This is a guest blog from Librato about Silverline. Silverline gives detailed information, presented in graphical form, on the actual usage of processor, memory and storage and network bandwidth at the application level. It also provides reliable estimates of application resource “demand,” which allows you to identify resource constraints as a potential source of performance...
Jan 19, 2012
On Tuesday, the Internet Society announced “World IPv6 Launch Day”, a huge step in the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. Scheduled for June 6, 2012, this “launch day” comes almost one year after the similarly noteworthy World IPv6 Day, during which many prominent Internet businesses enabled IPv6 AAAA record resolution for their primary websites for...
Jan 18, 2012
The Internet is unnervingly quiet today. In response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate, some of the most popular sites on the web have gone dark today – demonstrating the danger (and the potential unchecked power) of these two bills....
Jan 17, 2012
All but gone are the days of plain, static webpages flowered with horrible repeating neon backgrounds and covered with nauseating animated GIFs created by amateur designers that would make your mother cry and induce seizures in your grandpa. Needless to say, we have come a long way since Al Gore first “created the intarwebs” in...
Jan 16, 2012
What does it take to be a good leader? What kind of leader do you want to follow? Throughout my life, I’ve gravitated toward leadership positions. Even when I was young, I tended to take charge of a group to achieve a goal or accomplish a mission … though most of the “missions” in my...
Jan 13, 2012
Last week, Cracked.com ran an article about “9 Quirky Things Every ‘Cool’ Workplace Is Required to Have.” The post points out several seemingly trite characteristics of “trendy” and “fun” companies, and SoftLayer was one of the companies the author used to illustrate her point about quirky conference room names. The “obscure inside jokes” we chose...
Jan 12, 2012
Last week, I explained SoftLayer’s stance against SOPA and mentioned that SOPA would essentially require service providers like SoftLayer to “break the Internet” in response to reports of “infringing sites.” The technical readers in our audience probably acknowledged the point and moved on, but our non-technical readers (and some representatives in Congress) might have gotten...
Jan 11, 2012
This is a guest blog from blue dog NETWORK about Hosted Sharepoint. blue dog NETWORK customers are realizing the results that every business wants from their information technology: intelligence, simplicity, and security. They get peace of mind and the agility to add or subtract users or services with just a click 24/7 at a cost...
Jan 10, 2012
I recently worked on a project that involved creating promotion codes for our clients. I wanted to make this tool as simple as possible to use and because this involved dealing with thousands of our products in dozens of categories with custom pricing for each of these products, I had to find a generic way...
Jan 09, 2012
One of the most time consuming tasks with iptables is troubleshooting a problematic ruleset. That will not change no matter how much experience you have with it. However, with the right mindset, this task becomes considerably easier. If you missed my last installment about iptables rule processing, here’s a crash course: The rules start at...
Jan 06, 2012
SoftLayer manages more than 100,000 servers in thirteen data centers around the world. We have more than 23,000 customers, and those customers are responsible for millions of websites (which get billions of pageviews every month). We’re one of the largest hosting providers in the world, and we want to talk a little about the Stop...
Jan 05, 2012
As I mentioned in “iptables Tips and Tricks – Port Redirection,” iptables is probably a complete mystery to a lot of users, and one the biggest hurdles is understanding the method by which it filters traffic … Once you understand this, you’ll be able to tame the beast. When I think of iptables, the best...
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