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TheHostingNews.com attracts an audience of executives and webmasters who are either in the hosting industry or are looking to become a host. THN offers visitors the best in resources and news for the hosting industry. SoftLayer is featured on The Hosting News.
The Annual Web Hosting Awards are a global recognition of innovators and market leaders, set up to reward outstanding contributions within the Web Hosting industry. Commenced in 2006, the HostReview Annual Awards have grown to be one of the most prestigious web hosting awards of its kind. 2010 marks the 5th year for these prestigious awards.
SoftLayer won the Best Web Hosting Company award in 2010, the Top 10 Best SaaS provider in 2009, and the Top 10 Readers' Choice Award in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
SoftLayer received 2011 Dallas 100™ Entrepreneur Award from the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship on November 16, and was further honored as the top fastest growing company in the Dallas area. Co-founded by the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship in 1990, the Dallas 100™ Awards is an annual event that identifies and honors the 100 fastest-growing privately held companies in the Dallas area. To qualify for the Dallas 100™, a company must meet a number of criteria based on its legal status, location, sales history, credit report, and character.
SoftLayer has been awarded the New Product Innovation of the Year for Cloud Infrastructure Solutions North America, 2010. Cloud IT has introduced a novel method of acquiring and scaling IT infrastructure and has been able to resolve the traditional issues. SoftLayer® has developed a unique cloud solution that ably addresses these challenges. This innovative solution is developed essentially to aid companies to build virtual data servers which could seamlessly interoperate with in-house servers in order to enhance performance and productivity.
Softlayer was voted "Game Servers Editor's Choice" for January 2012.
FindMyHost.com recognizes the top companies, per category, who have excelled in their field. The FindMyHost Editors' Choice Awards are chosen based on Editor and Consumer Reviews.
SoftLayer has won the Editors' Choice Award for Cloud Computing, Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Game Servers, Dedicated Hosting, Enterprise Hosting and Windows Hosting. View all of the the SoftLayer FindMyHost Awards.
SoftLayer is listed in the "Niche Players" quadrant for its innovation and leadership. According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant a "Nice Player" is one with "the ability to execute and completeness of vision." SoftLayer is one of the first to offer Private Networks for managing servers, fully featured and integrated portals, standards oriented and fully featured APIs, and recently, cloud offerings that integrate with all SoftLayer services.
The Lead411 research team scours through 600+ press releases and business articles including venture capital funding, company launches, new office openings, customer press releases, etc. This information has given insight to which are the fastest growing companies in the U.S. Their "Hottest Companies" awards have been created to recognize these fast growing companies in different geographic regions. This particular list originally started with over 1500 companies and it has been narrowed down to the top 71.
For 10 years, Red Herring's editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.
SoftLayer has been selected as a finalist for this award. For more information, see the press release below.
The Titan Fast Tech annually recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in the DFW Metroplex, based on percentage of revenue growth over five years and one year. The list is composed two categories: Five-year growth companies and one-year growth companies.
SoftLayer has been recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in DFW, three years running.
Every month Cloud Directory ranks the 25 most popular companies. The "25 Most Popular List" is based on the number of votes a company receives and the amount of times their profile page has been viewed each month.
SoftLayer Technologies, Inc has been selected as the Most Popular company for September 2011.
Every month, SaaS Directory USA ranks the 25 most popular companies, based on the number of votes received and the amount of times their profile page has been viewed.
SoftLayer Technologies, Inc has been selected as one of the Top 25 Most Popular companies for March 2011.
Every month, Dedicated Server Directory ranks the 25 most popular companies. The "25 Most Popular List" is based on the number of votes a company receives and the amount of times their profile page has been viewed each month.
SoftLayer Technologies, Inc has been selected as one of the Top 25 Most Popular companies for December 2011.
The Inc 500/5000 Awards is an annual event that identifies and honors the 500 fastest-growing privately held companies in the Dallas area. To qualify for the Dallas 100™, a company must meet a number of criteria based on its revenue for the previous three years. SoftLayer has been recognized in the Inc 500 for the past two years. This year SoftLayer ranked number 277 overall, number 21 in the IT Services category, and number 5 in Dallas.
The Technology Fast 500 program recognizes companies’ exemplary achievements in its annual ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the United States and Canada. The program is based on percentage revenue growth for the previous four years and recognizes all areas of technology and includes both public and private companies. This is the first year SoftLayer has qualified for this award and SoftLayer is ranked number 32.
Rough economic sledding didn’t stop the companies in our Top 100 Places to Work 2011 from keeping the good times rolling. The Dallas Morning News recognizes the Top 100 Places to Work in DFW based on employee feedback. Split into three categories (Large, Mid-Size, and Small Companies) SoftLayer ranks number 10 for Mid-Size Companies.
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