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(The Hosting News ) – SoftLayer Technologies™, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced the opening of three new data center pods in the company’s Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., data center facilities. The new pods add capacity for 20,000 additional servers, bringing SoftLayer’s total capacity to more than 45,000 physical machines.

The new pods are part of SoftLayer’s unique approach to data center design. Each of the company’s geographically diverse data centers consists of multiple pods built to identical specifications with the same best-in-class methodologies. This level of standardization across all its geographic locations enables SoftLayer to optimize key data center performance variables, including space, power, network, personnel, and internal infrastructure.

SoftLayer’s milestones in 2009 included:

* More than 5,700 active customers across 110+ countries
* More than 23,000 deployed servers
* Placement in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services
* Introduction of CloudLayer™ line of cloud services, including CloudLayer Storage, CloudLayer CDN, CloudLayer Computing, and Bare Metal Cloud™
* Industry’s first deployment of Intel® Nehalem microarchitecture
* IPv6 support across all data centers
* Multiple carrier additions across all data centers for a total of 290Gbps

“We continue gaining momentum every year. We broke more projections and records this year than last, and 2010 will bring even more of the same,” said Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer. “These three new pods meet the customer demand increases that we expect in the very near future. And they are only preliminary measures in our growth strategy for 2010. We have some big plans which we can’t wait to share with everyone.”

About SoftLayer Technologies

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides best-in-class, on-demand IT services on a global basis from facilities in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements to innovate industry-leading services—including cloud, dedicated, and virtual computing environments

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(The Hosting News ) – SoftLayer Technologies™, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced the opening of three new data center pods in the company’s Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., data center facilities. The new pods add capacity for 20,000 additional servers, bringing SoftLayer’s total capacity to more than 45,000 physical machines.

The new pods are part of SoftLayer’s unique approach to data center design. Each of the company’s geographically diverse data centers consists of multiple pods built to identical specifications with the same best-in-class methodologies. This level of standardization across all its geographic locations enables SoftLayer to optimize key data center performance variables, including space, power, network, personnel, and internal infrastructure.

SoftLayer’s milestones in 2009 included:

* More than 5,700 active customers across 110+ countries
* More than 23,000 deployed servers
* Placement in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services
* Introduction of CloudLayer™ line of cloud services, including CloudLayer Storage, CloudLayer CDN, CloudLayer Computing, and Bare Metal Cloud™
* Industry’s first deployment of Intel® Nehalem microarchitecture
* IPv6 support across all data centers
* Multiple carrier additions across all data centers for a total of 290Gbps

“We continue gaining momentum every year. We broke more projections and records this year than last, and 2010 will bring even more of the same,” said Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer. “These three new pods meet the customer demand increases that we expect in the very near future. And they are only preliminary measures in our growth strategy for 2010. We have some big plans which we can’t wait to share with everyone.”

About SoftLayer Technologies

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides best-in-class, on-demand IT services on a global basis from facilities in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements to innovate industry-leading services—including cloud, dedicated, and virtual computing environments

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Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – September 8, 2009 – On-demand data center services provider, SoftLayer Technologies, has received the 2009 One-Year Fast Tech Award at the 9th Annual Tech Titans Awards and Fast Tech, presented by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC).

The award recognizes the company with the highest percentage of revenue growth in 2008 over 2007 in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area. Both private and public companies from any technology industry segment are eligible for the award, as long as they own proprietary technology. SoftLayer received the same award in 2008 for its growth in 2007 over 2006.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer noted, ”We are very proud to win this prestigious award two years in a row. It is an honor being recognized among DFW’s technology leaders – there are many innovative companies doing great things here. Our continuing growth can be directly attributed to our unique approach to hosting and data center services. We’re bringing new ideas and practical advantages to our customers and the market.”

MTBC is the largest technology trade organization in Texas. Its annual Tech Titans Awards and Fast Tech rankings showcase the industry’s most talented individuals and the companies with the most advanced technologies in North Texas. The region is a leading center for technology and innovation in the U.S. and globally. The American Electronics Association Cybercities 2008 report ranked DFW fifth among U.S. cities in high-tech employment, with approximately 176,000 high-tech workers. DFW ranked second nationwide for employment in both the telecommunications services and Internet services sectors.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

More information about the event and award is available at: www.metroplextbc.org/techtitans.

For more information about SoftLayer Technologies, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – September 8, 2009 – On-demand data center services provider, SoftLayer Technologies, has received the 2009 One-Year Fast Tech Award at the 9th Annual Tech Titans Awards and Fast Tech, presented by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC).

The award recognizes the company with the highest percentage of revenue growth in 2008 over 2007 in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area. Both private and public companies from any technology industry segment are eligible for the award, as long as they own proprietary technology. SoftLayer received the same award in 2008 for its growth in 2007 over 2006.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer noted, ”We are very proud to win this prestigious award two years in a row. It is an honor being recognized among DFW’s technology leaders – there are many innovative companies doing great things here. Our continuing growth can be directly attributed to our unique approach to hosting and data center services. We’re bringing new ideas and practical advantages to our customers and the market.”

MTBC is the largest technology trade organization in Texas. Its annual Tech Titans Awards and Fast Tech rankings showcase the industry’s most talented individuals and the companies with the most advanced technologies in North Texas. The region is a leading center for technology and innovation in the U.S. and globally. The American Electronics Association Cybercities 2008 report ranked DFW fifth among U.S. cities in high-tech employment, with approximately 176,000 high-tech workers. DFW ranked second nationwide for employment in both the telecommunications services and Internet services sectors.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

More information about the event and award is available at: www.metroplextbc.org/techtitans.

For more information about SoftLayer Technologies, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – August 4, 2009 – On-demand data center services provider, SoftLayer Technologies, began offering Parallels Plesk Panel as an optional service with CloudLayer Computing Instances. The extension of Parallels Panel to the company’s cloud computing solution gives SoftLayer customers even more control and operational efficiency for these exceptionally scalable environments. 

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Worldwide for Parallels remarked, “Parallels Panel was designed to enable our partners like SoftLayer to build more flexibility and value into their solutions, and extend all of its benefits to their customers. We’re excited to see it extended to SoftLayer’s cloud customers. Parallels Panel helps SMBs maximize their IT investments and provides access to new applications and services on-demand. We believe in meeting customers evolving needs, and cloud services are truly redefining the hosting industry.” 

Used by service providers and system administrators around the world, Parallels Panel automates and simplifies management and administration for dedicated, shared, and virtual systems. It provides a wide range of features for optimizing operations and maximizing return, including an easy-to-use interface, powerful backup and restore functionality, and robust tools for managing and reselling applications and services. 

CloudLayer Computing provides cloud-based computing instances running enterprise-grade and open source operating systems delivered in as few as five minutes. These instances give enterprises massive scalability and can seamlessly integrate with SoftLayer dedicated servers, automated services, and other CloudLayer services (including CloudLayer Storage and CloudLayer CDN) to create a fully unified computing solution. Monthly billing is based on hourly usage or a monthly rate with no long-term commitment, providing an exceptional degree of flexibility. Other advantages include:

• Image Library-Capture, template, and store images for accelerated provisioning and management
• Ease of Use-Full access and control via Customer Portal and API
• Full Virtualization-Virtualized networking, security, storage, and management optimizes “beyond the box”

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.
 
  To learn more information about CloudLayer Computing, or the entire CloudLayer line of services, please visit: www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer.html. 

For more information, please visit: www.softlayer.com. 

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – August 4, 2009 – On-demand data center services provider, SoftLayer Technologies, began offering Parallels Plesk Panel as an optional service with CloudLayer Computing Instances. The extension of Parallels Panel to the company’s cloud computing solution gives SoftLayer customers even more control and operational efficiency for these exceptionally scalable environments. 

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Worldwide for Parallels remarked, “Parallels Panel was designed to enable our partners like SoftLayer to build more flexibility and value into their solutions, and extend all of its benefits to their customers. We’re excited to see it extended to SoftLayer’s cloud customers. Parallels Panel helps SMBs maximize their IT investments and provides access to new applications and services on-demand. We believe in meeting customers evolving needs, and cloud services are truly redefining the hosting industry.” 

Used by service providers and system administrators around the world, Parallels Panel automates and simplifies management and administration for dedicated, shared, and virtual systems. It provides a wide range of features for optimizing operations and maximizing return, including an easy-to-use interface, powerful backup and restore functionality, and robust tools for managing and reselling applications and services. 

CloudLayer Computing provides cloud-based computing instances running enterprise-grade and open source operating systems delivered in as few as five minutes. These instances give enterprises massive scalability and can seamlessly integrate with SoftLayer dedicated servers, automated services, and other CloudLayer services (including CloudLayer Storage and CloudLayer CDN) to create a fully unified computing solution. Monthly billing is based on hourly usage or a monthly rate with no long-term commitment, providing an exceptional degree of flexibility. Other advantages include:

• Image Library-Capture, template, and store images for accelerated provisioning and management
• Ease of Use-Full access and control via Customer Portal and API
• Full Virtualization-Virtualized networking, security, storage, and management optimizes “beyond the box”

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.
 
  To learn more information about CloudLayer Computing, or the entire CloudLayer line of services, please visit: www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer.html. 

For more information, please visit: www.softlayer.com. 

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – August 4, 2009 – On-demand data center services provider, SoftLayer Technologies, began offering Parallels Plesk Panel as an optional service with CloudLayer Computing Instances. The extension of Parallels Panel to the company’s cloud computing solution gives SoftLayer customers even more control and operational efficiency for these exceptionally scalable environments. 

Jack Zubarev, President of Service Provider Worldwide for Parallels remarked, “Parallels Panel was designed to enable our partners like SoftLayer to build more flexibility and value into their solutions, and extend all of its benefits to their customers. We’re excited to see it extended to SoftLayer’s cloud customers. Parallels Panel helps SMBs maximize their IT investments and provides access to new applications and services on-demand. We believe in meeting customers evolving needs, and cloud services are truly redefining the hosting industry.” 

Used by service providers and system administrators around the world, Parallels Panel automates and simplifies management and administration for dedicated, shared, and virtual systems. It provides a wide range of features for optimizing operations and maximizing return, including an easy-to-use interface, powerful backup and restore functionality, and robust tools for managing and reselling applications and services. 

CloudLayer Computing provides cloud-based computing instances running enterprise-grade and open source operating systems delivered in as few as five minutes. These instances give enterprises massive scalability and can seamlessly integrate with SoftLayer dedicated servers, automated services, and other CloudLayer services (including CloudLayer Storage and CloudLayer CDN) to create a fully unified computing solution. Monthly billing is based on hourly usage or a monthly rate with no long-term commitment, providing an exceptional degree of flexibility. Other advantages include:

• Image Library-Capture, template, and store images for accelerated provisioning and management
• Ease of Use-Full access and control via Customer Portal and API
• Full Virtualization-Virtualized networking, security, storage, and management optimizes “beyond the box”

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.
 
  To learn more information about CloudLayer Computing, or the entire CloudLayer line of services, please visit: www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer.html. 

For more information, please visit: www.softlayer.com. 

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – July 8, 2009 – The Gartner Magic Quadrant for ”Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On-Demand),” written by Gartner analysts Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlain, includes SoftLayer Technologies as a ”Niche Player.”

Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer noted, ”In my opinion, being evaluated in this report is proof that our unique approach is redefining hosting. Of course, our greatest pride and core goal is to provide solutions and scalability that make an impact on our customers’ business. But to me, being in the Magic Quadrant shows that we’re making a difference throughout the industry.”

SoftLayer has consistently built an effective solution through the complete integration of multiple IT environments – both in-house and outsourced – through a common management console and provisioning system. The firm has established a record of innovation and thought leadership that includes multiple industry firsts: Private Network for managing servers; fully featured and integrated portal; and a standards oriented and fully featured API. Most recently, SoftLayer launched a set of cloud services that include:

• CDN
• Storage
• Computing

All of these are available as standalone services (i.e. no dedicated server required) as well as being fully integrated with all other SoftLayer offerings. SoftLayer Also offers hourly billing for its CloudLayer Computing platform, which is available across all SoftLayer data centers.

Each company in the Magic Quadrant was evaluated on its completeness of vision and ability to execute within five use cases: self-managed hosting, mainstream-managed hosting, highly complex managed hosting, and global.

solutions portfolio, and enterprise applications hosting.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer at SoftLayer noted, ”We truly are a different breed. Our on-demand data services provide far more than hosting, and our commitment to fully automated solutions and complete customer access and control really moves us out of either the managed or unmanaged categories. With each offering we introduce, we’re not just extending our portfolio – we’re transforming how those services are provided. And I’m excited about the new ideas we have on the way.”

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted July 2, 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the Leaders’ quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

To learn more, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – July 8, 2009 – The Gartner Magic Quadrant for ”Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services (On-Demand),” written by Gartner analysts Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlain, includes SoftLayer Technologies as a ”Niche Player.”

Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer noted, ”In my opinion, being evaluated in this report is proof that our unique approach is redefining hosting. Of course, our greatest pride and core goal is to provide solutions and scalability that make an impact on our customers’ business. But to me, being in the Magic Quadrant shows that we’re making a difference throughout the industry.”

SoftLayer has consistently built an effective solution through the complete integration of multiple IT environments – both in-house and outsourced – through a common management console and provisioning system. The firm has established a record of innovation and thought leadership that includes multiple industry firsts: Private Network for managing servers; fully featured and integrated portal; and a standards oriented and fully featured API. Most recently, SoftLayer launched a set of cloud services that include:

• CDN
• Storage
• Computing

All of these are available as standalone services (i.e. no dedicated server required) as well as being fully integrated with all other SoftLayer offerings. SoftLayer Also offers hourly billing for its CloudLayer Computing platform, which is available across all SoftLayer data centers.

Each company in the Magic Quadrant was evaluated on its completeness of vision and ability to execute within five use cases: self-managed hosting, mainstream-managed hosting, highly complex managed hosting, and global.

solutions portfolio, and enterprise applications hosting.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer at SoftLayer noted, ”We truly are a different breed. Our on-demand data services provide far more than hosting, and our commitment to fully automated solutions and complete customer access and control really moves us out of either the managed or unmanaged categories. With each offering we introduce, we’re not just extending our portfolio – we’re transforming how those services are provided. And I’m excited about the new ideas we have on the way.”

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted July 2, 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the Leaders’ quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

To learn more, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 22, 2009 – On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer Technologies introduced its new CloudLayer Storage recently, powered by the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform, as a Premier Hosting Partner.

Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer explained, ”We deployed the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform because it was purpose-built to meet the needs of service providers. Mezeo’s advanced REST-style Web Services APIs made it easy for our development team to integrate advanced storing, managing, sharing and collaboration capabilities into our CloudLayer Storage service, and their white-labeled access clients enabled our customers with anytime, anywhere access to their files stored in CloudLayer Storage.”

CloudLayer Storage utilizes SoftLayer’s advanced StorageLayer solution, which integrates industry-leading technologies — including FTP/NAS, iSCSI, EVault, and others — into a unified storage environment for the ultimate level of security and reliability. Use of Mezeo’s platform ensures that the files are always secure and encrypted — SSL encryption in transit and 256 bit AES encryption at rest. User access is controlled using role based permissions and share expirations. Mezeo’s white labeled Access Clients for Windows Desktops and leading mobile smartphones — BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile devices, enable ubiquitous access to files on CloudLayer Storage. In addition, these files can be accessed via WebDAV or a Web 2.0 browser interface.

Shayan Amindani, Business Development Executive at VectorLevel LLC, a California-based web hosting company noted, ”I am pleasantly surprised by SoftLayer’s new CloudLayer service. The speeds are superb and the prices are excellent.”

Steve Lesem, President and CEO of Mezeo offered, ”SoftLayer has done everything right throughout the deployment process and the result is that CloudLayer Storage provides best-of-class capabilities that businesses and consumers want right now. It is exciting to see the market embrace the extraordinary value of Mezeo’s deployable cloud storage platform as deployed by SoftLayer. The Mezeo cloud storage solutions can be quickly and cost effectively integrated into an IT service provider’s offerings.”

Mezeo is the leading provider of a deployable platform for cloud storage that enables IT Hosting providers, Managed Service Providers, SaaS Providers, and converged Telcos to immediately monetize Storage as a Service. Our Cloud Storage Platform Solutions include Cloud Storage with Web services APIs, Access Cloud, SaaS Cloud and Personal Cloud Storage. These solutions feature secure file storage, advanced file sharing and collaboration, content tagging and true anywhere access from an integrated Windows desktop, rich Web 2.0 browsers and iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile native client access. Mezeo is easy to deploy, highly scalable and highly secure, with well-designed APIs for platform extensibility.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA and Washington DC. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry’s first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

To learn more about Mezeo, please visit: www.mezeo.com.

For more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.