1. Emily Sampson
Community Development EMEA

2. HOW DID SOFTLAYER START

3. SoftLayer at a glance
Customers 24,000 in 140 countries
Servers under management 100,000
2011 revenue ~$335 million
2011 EBITDA ~$130 million
Investment in assets $444 million
Investment in development 2.6 million lines of code
250,000 man-hours
Employees 690
Data centers 13

4. Modular Infrastructure
Standard architectural platform
Deploy dedicated and virtual servers
Blend public and private clouds
Connect it all together
Integrate multiple storage solutions
Add discrete managed services
• Monitoring
• Managed hosting
• Security
• Email
• Network
• Backup

5. GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
13 data centers 20 Gb fiber between data centers
16 network points-of-presence 24,000 customers in 140 countries
100,000 servers under management 22,000,000 domains hosted

6. Customers
Software as a Service Mobile and Communications
Bump Voxer What’s App Instapaper Yelp
Social Media Games and Entertainment
Platform as a Service Marketing and Digital Media
Hosting & Service Providers Enterprise

7. WE LOVE STARTUPS STAR

8. SOFTLAYER CATALYST
• A credit toward dedicated, cloud or hybrid compute
environment (1000US per month) for a FULL YEAR
• Mentoring from the Executive Team
• Direct connection to highest level programming team
• Connection to Marketing and PR Team
• "Pay it Forward" ethos

9. TRY IT YOURSELF