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Video Feature: WHIR tv features Nathan Day (SoftLayer) and Sunil Potti (Citrix)

Posted on 2010-03-10

Today's video is our second installment in our on-going video feature series about the SoftLayer and Citrix partnership.

Video Feature: Citrix and SoftLayer Partnership, Video #2

March 10, 2010 -- WHIR tv's David Hamilton interviews SoftLayer CTO Nathan Day and Citrix Product Manager Sunil Potti about the recent SoftLayer/Citrix partnership in this second installment of a five part video series.

Softlayer Establishes Presence At Telx's Atlanta and NYC Colo Facilities

March 9, 2010 -- Interconnection and colocation provider Telx has been selected as a connectivity partner by SoftLayer, a global provider of on-demand data center, hosting, and cloud services, which has established a presence in Telx's secure, connection-rich colocation facilities in Atlanta and New York City.

Video Feature: WHIR tv interviews Nathan Day (SoftLayer) and Simon Crosby (Citrix) about a recent partnership.

Posted on 2010-02-24

Today's video feature is the first in an on going five video series. Hosted by The WHIR's David Hamilton, executives from both Citrix and SoftLayer took time out of their busy schedules to speak on their recent partnership.

WHIR tv Video Feature: Interview with Nathan Day and Simon Crosby

February 24th, 2010 -- As the first installment of a five part series, WHIR tv's David Hamilton talks to SoftLayer's Nathan Day and Citrix's Simon Crosby about their recent partnership.

Parallels Summit 2010 - Day 2 Session: Take your hosting business to the next step

Posted on 2010-02-23

In one of the conference's most anticipated presentations, SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby delivered the afternoon's next session, "Take your hosting business to the next step".

Web Host SoftLayer Moves HQ to Digital Realty Property

February 18, 2010 -- Data center operator Digital Realty Trust announced on Thursday it has completed a multi-faceted lease agreement with Web hosting provider SoftLayer, where it will house its headquarters and data centers in a DRT property in the Dallas area.

SoftLayer Deploys Isilon Scale-Out NAS to Power Enterprise Cloud

February 18, 2010 -- Clustered storage and data management solutions provider Isilon Systems has announced that SoftLayer has deployed its Isilon scale-out network-attached storage to power its enterprise cloud infrastructure, providing global, on-demand data center and hosting services for thousands of customers.

SoftLayer Completes Second Annual SAS 70 Type II Audit

January 27, 2010 -- On-demand data center services provider SoftLayer Technologies has completed the SAS 70 Type II audit of all its existing data center facilities in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC, marking the second year it has maintain prescribed levels of data security and redundancy, as well as personnel controls.

"Hosting for Haiti" Helps Raise Money for Red Cross

January 21, 2010 -- On January 12, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, causing the deaths of as many as 200,000 people, and leaving an estimated 1.5 million people homeless. As the people of Haiti struggle with this tragedy, there remains a critical shortage of essential supplies and support personnel.

Web Hosting Year in Review: Cloud Computing

January 1, 2010 -- Cloud computing did as much as any other technology, idea or product to define web hosting in 2009. It was a constant subject of conversation in the industry - a major topic at just about every hosting event this year, regularly addressed in new product announcements and press releases and was the buzzword service that customers sought out and hosting companies worked to align their products with.

Web Hosting Year in Review: Investment and Finance

December 30, 2009 -- For businesses in just about every industry, 2009 was marked more by the state of the economy than by any other individual factor. The recession from which we may or may not have now emerged wreaked wide and well-reported havoc on the automotive, banking and insurance industries, and did varying degrees of damage to other businesses.

SoftLayer Opens Three Data Center Pods

December 2, 2009 -- Data center services provider SoftLayer Technologies announced on Wednesday it has opened three new data center pods in the company's Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. data center facilities.

SoftLayer Adds Privacy to Dedicated, Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

October 19, 2009 -- Enhancing its service offerings to meet to demands of businesses that need a dedicated environment rather than shared infrastructure, on-demand data center services provider SoftLayer Technologies has added Private Cloud services, which separates customers' physical computing hardware from other users', giving customers the privacy of dedicated hardware with the scalability of the cloud.

SoftLayer Adds Bare Metal Cloud to Cloud Services

October 5, 2009 -- SoftLayer Technologies announced on Monday it has added Bare Metal Cloud computing instances to its line of CloudLayer services.

DH Capital Closes $20M Debt Financing for SoftLayer

September 30, 2009 -- Investment banking firm DH Capital announced on Wednesday it has closed $20 million in financing for SoftLayer Technologies from an unidentified private investment group.

My Ballot for the Web Hosting Dream Team

Posted on 2009-09-29

What a great idea to have the readers of the WHIR pick a Web Hosting Dream Team - http://www.thewhir.com/Poll/vote . I wanted to share with you my ballot and the process I used to make the decisions. Additionally, I added a couple of cate

SoftLayer To Add Citrix NetScaler VPX, Accelerating Web Apps Fivefold

September 29, 2009 -- Accelerating the performance, availability and protection of web applications, SoftLayer Technologies is integrating virtual web application delivery appliance Citrix NetScaler VPX, making customer applications five times faster and lowering server costs by 60 percent.

Cloudera Announces Hadoop World: NYC 2009 Sponsors

September 23, 2009 -- Cloudera, which offers enterprise-level support to users of Apache Hadoop, has confirmed 12 sponsors for its inaugural Hadoop World conference in less than two weeks in New York City.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup

September 18, 2009 -- There were a variety of web hosting sales and promos this week, including major discounts for switching to Vision help desk and InetServices dedicated hosting. Also, HostingSource began its end-of-summer sale on all its dedicated servers and VPS plans; Hosting Nation cooked up some new reseller and dedicated hosting packages; and 10TB.com and Midphase.com are offering 50 percent discounts on web hosting services.

SoftLayer Offers EVault Bare Metal Restores

August 25, 2009 -- On-demand virtual data center services provider SoftLayer has begun offering EVault Bare Metal Restores, an advanced disaster recovery capability that enables customers to completely restore servers to a bare metal state after an operating system or hardware failure.

SoftLayer to Resell VeriSign SSL Certificates

August 17, 2009 -- Web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies and security solutions provider VeriSign announced on Monday that they have signed a new security partnership deal that will bring the entire line of VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer certificates to SoftLayer customers.

HostingCon Keynote Panel - Offering Cloud Services to Your Customers

Posted on 2009-08-11

Tuesday’s HostingCon activity closed with a return to the keynote presentation theatre, to the panel discussion and the topic of cloud computing, as representatives from Parallels, Rackspace, Mezeo and SoftLayer weighed in on the subject.

SoftLayer Extends API to Manage Cloud Services

August 10, 2009 -- Three months after launching its latest line of cloud services, CloudLayer, on-demand data center services provider SoftLayer has extended its application programming interface to control CloudLayer computing and storage services, letting clients streamline operations through automation and systems integration.