When a SLayers pack their bags and heads to the ‘Big Apple,’ we go BIG. Our most recent trip to NYC for Cloud Expo East proved that statement over and over again. When I heard I’d be one of the employees representing SoftLayer at the Javits Convention Center, I did a little dance … Cloud [...]
I’ve been working at SoftLayer for almost ten months now, in my relatively short tenure, I’ve written hundreds (if not thousands) of tweets covering a broad range of topics and events … As a Social Media Coordinator, it’s an integral part of my job. Given what I’ve learned about hosting in the past year, I’m [...]
Last week, the SoftLayer team attended ad:tech San Francisco. It’s pretty unbelievable to think that it’s only April, and this show was the seventh I’ve attended this year. 2012 has already been a HUGE year for SoftLayer in terms of growth, and our trade show and conference schedule has provided a fantastic outlet to share [...]
I’m on cloud nine at Softlayer. I know “cloud” is probably the most confusing term I can use about how happy I am to be a SLayer because I’m not talking about public cloud, private cloud, or bare metal cloud, but it seemed like the expression that best fit my mood. Beyond the “cloud” products [...]
The Server Challenge has become an all-out attraction. What started out as a little game we brought to SxSW last year has evolved into a competition attendees anxiously await. In the past month, we’ve had two phenomenal Server Challenge competitions — one at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising (TFM&A) conference in London and the [...]
Having been client in the past, I already had some idea of how amazing the SoftLayer team was. Every interaction I had with the company was fantastic, and though I’ve worked with hundreds of service providers in different industries, I can wholeheartedly say that the service I received at Softlayer was better than any I’d [...]
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 [...]
A month ago, Summer talked about how SoftLayer defies the laws of physics by being in several different places at the same time. With a worldwide network and data center footprint, that’s always going to be the case, but when we have several events going on in a given week, we’re even more dispersed. As [...]
If you’ve visited SoftLayer at a large conference this year, you probably came face-to-rack with our Server Challenge. Your task: Reassemble our miniature rack of SuperMicro servers in the fastest time at the conference. To do this, you need to install twenty drive trays in five servers and connect network cables in the correct switches [...]
Is it possible to be in three places at once? For SoftLayer it is! Last week was an extremely busy one for the SoftLayer team. SLayers from the marketing and sales teams were dispersed to cover three different trade shows in two separate cities where we’d meet a few thousand soon-to-be SoftLayer customers. I attended [...]
