The SoftLayer team visited Las Vegas for Interop 2013, and attendees from around the world stopped by our booth to take on the infamous Server Challenge II. The challenge was completed more than two hundred and fifty times with an average time of 1:31.34. The Server Challenge II “Hall of Fame” was particularly competitive at [...]
SoftLayer made our way to San Francisco for another great year of digital marketing fun at ad:tech. This event is always a blast because it allows us trade show roadies to change up our usual dialogue and talk about SoftLayer in a unique way … Instead of fielding technical questions about our platform, we get [...]
This guest blog comes to us from one of the most popular members of the SoftLayer trade show team: The SoftLayer + Supermicro Server Challenge II. You’ve seen our coverage of conference attendees competing to win a MacBook Air, but you’ve never gotten the story from the Server Challenge’s perspective … until now. We secretly [...]
If you want to find the Server Challenge II on an exhibit hall floor, just look for a crowd in one of the aisles and listen for cheers. When SoftLayer partnered with Supermicro to build a retro upgrade for our original Server Challenge, we knew the results would be phenomenal, and we haven’t been disappointed. [...]
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority says, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” but we absconded from Caesars Palace with far too many pictures and videos from Parallels Summit to adhere to their suggestion. Over the course of three days, attendees stayed busy with presentations, networking sessions, parties, cocktails and (of course) the [...]
Every year, we attend more than fifty trade shows and conferences around the world. We want to spread the word about SoftLayer and connect with each conference’s technical audience (also known as future SoftLayer customers). That goal is pretty straightforward on paper, but when it comes to executing on it, we’re faced with the same [...]
Wakka wakka wakka wakka. All your base are belong to us. I’m sorry Mario, but our princess is in another castle. It’s dangerous to go alone. Do a barrel roll. If you can place any of those quotes from the video games of yore, you’ll probably love the Server Challenge II. Taking cues from classic [...]
I can’t begin to tell you how much fun I have when I get to represent SoftLayer at conferences. The days may be long, and my feet may go numb by the end of the day from so much standing, but the time seems to fly as I get to meet new people, give out [...]
If 80′s movies have taught me anything, it’s that any good story needs to have a video montage with Journey playing in the background. With that in mind, I’ll start this blog post with a glimpse of HostingCon 2012: HostingCon brings the hosting industry together every year, and the conference winds up being surprisingly similar [...]
It’s that time of year again … HostingCon is upon us, and we’re faced with an interesting challenge: Go even bigger and badder in Boston than we did at HostingCon 2011 in San Diego. And that’s a tall order. Given the fact that we’ve already sponsored and participated in dozens of conferences around the world [...]
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