About Click a square below to review useful information about SoftLayer.Softlayer has once again been positioned in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for "Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting", released on December 22, 2010 and written by Gartner analysts Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlain.
According to the Gartner report, "Cloud IaaS is the future of outsourced hosting. Every company that offers Web hosting — including carriers, outsourcers and independent Web hosters — is being forced to evolve its business. New service providers that are specifically focused on cloud IaaS continue to enter the market. On-demand, pay-as-you-go capacity has become the norm, but customers frequently sign multiyear commitments to obtain discounts, and multiyear agreements are common for managed services. The bulk of IaaS will be delivered on virtualized fabrics, but it will continue to be common to have hybrid architectures that combine virtualized resources for scale-out tiers with dedicated servers for resource-intensive needs such as databases."
Gartner based the 2010 evaluation on the three most common use cases for outsourced hosting, all of which are made more cost effective by on-demand infrastructure. The use cases are:
Our approach since founding SoftLayer has been to give our customers complete control over their environments through a level of automation that is unheard of in the industry. Our record of innovation and thought leadership in our design includes multiple industry firsts: Private Network for managing servers; fully featured and integrated portal; standards oriented and fully featured API; and most recently a cloud offering that integrates with all SoftLayer services. At SoftLayer, we believe the secret to building an effective solution going forward is going to be the complete integration of multiple IT environments - both in-house and outsourced - through a common management console and provisioning system. To that end, we have launched a set of cloud services that include:
All of these are available as standalone services (i.e. no dedicated server required) as well as being fully integrated with all other SoftLayer offerings. SoftLayer offers hourly billing on our CloudLayer® computing platform which is available across all SoftLayer data centers.
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted December 22, 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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