FD Insights Issue 6 | Page 55

Performance and flexibility * SoftLayer delivers services across the globe via a network of local cloud hubs, such as data centers and points of presence. These local cloud hubs can provide prompt access to data without having to wait for servers several countries away to respond. * SoftLayer’s high-performance private network also makes it possible to build global applications that do not require or use the public Internet to connect to servers that are located in multiple countries, which helps avoid disruptions caused by other traffic on a public network. * SoftLayer provides automated services to help create an ideal hosting environment for enterprise-class applications, both cloud enabled and cloud native. SoftLayer clients can build their businesses using virtually any combination of hybrid hosting with dedicated servers, single-tenant virtualized servers and multi-tenant virtualized servers—and security-rich, highly scalable web service solutions to help address operational requirements, whether they are unique or standard. * Performance is the intersection of power, agility and control. What organization that values performance would want to use an oversubscribed, commodity cloud as the cornerstone of their business? Globalization * SoftLayer is one of the largest cloud infrastructure providers in the world. Today, it supports a rapidly growing list of clients in over 140 countries. The data center and points-of-presence (PoPs) locations provide near-seamless, direct, private and high-speed, security-rich access to a highly optimized backbone network, bringing connectivity closer to the end user. * Nearly all SoftLayer services are available at all of its data centers. The only exceptions are object storage and storage-area network (SAN) storage, which are available i