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Press Release

SoftLayer® to Deliver Keynote Address at Parallels® APAC Summit 2011

CEO Lance Crosby to Discuss Market Trends and Opportunities in IT Hosting Industry

Dallas—September 22, 2011—SoftLayer® Technologies, the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed hosting, today announced that CEO Lance Crosby will deliver a keynote address at the Parallels APAC Summit 2011, in Sentosa, Singapore, on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 11:45 a.m.

Mr. Crosby will present his views on the state of the IT hosting industry discussing key trends, customer adoption and market growth opportunities. He will also outline different strategies for capturing market share based on SoftLayer’s ability to innovate and automate data center services around customer pain points. In addition, Mr. Crosby will provide an update on the company’s expansion into Asia as well as the successful merger of SoftLayer and The Planet®, which created the largest privately-held hosting company in the world.

“Participating at the Parallels APAC Summit gives us a great opportunity to share ideas and best practices with other leaders in our industry,” said Mr. Crosby. “As our industry continues to evolve and rapidly change IT hosting providers must find new ways to adapt and add value. As we move into Asia the opportunity and market demand has never been greater to truly deliver on the promise of cloud computing for businesses and consumers alike."

SoftLayer is aggressively expanding in Asia, opening its first data center and network Points of Presence (PoPs) in Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Beginning Sept. 23, customers can pre-order services in the new data center, to be deployed when the data center and PoPs officially open for operations on Oct. 3.

“SoftLayer built their data center services business from the ground up with the keen understanding that automating their systems and services are the keys to driving costs down in a price sensitive industry,” said Birger Steen, CEO of Parallels.  “We congratulate SoftLayer on their ongoing global build out of their data centers, and look forward to helping our valued partner continue to automate their Cloud infrastructure and other hosted services.”

Mr. Crosby will speak on Friday morning alongside other leaders in the hosting industry. Other events at the conference include:

• Product and Industry general sessions
• Exhibition hall featuring the latest products and services from the industry’s top companies
• Networking events including a cocktail reception, dinner, and team-building activities
• Real-time access to Parallels developers and executives

For more information about Parallels APAC Summit 2011 visit http://www.parallels.com/summit/apac/2011/.

About SoftLayer Technologies

SoftLayer is the global cloud infrastructure platform provider built for Internet scale. Headquartered in Dallas, the company operates 13 data centers in the US, Asia and Europe; worldwide network points of presence; and a high-speed global network for secure, low-latency communications. SoftLayer’s modular architecture, full-featured API and sophisticated automation create a flexible platform that seamlessly integrates physical and virtual systems. With 100,000 servers under management, SoftLayer is the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider in the world, with a portfolio of 25,000 leading-edge customers from Web startups to global enterprises. For more information, please visit softlayer.com or call 1.866.398.7638.

Contact:
Andre Fuochi
Director, Corporate Communications
469.394.7274
afuochi@softlayer.com

About Parallels APAC Summit

The Parallels APAC Summit in Singapore, is the only place in Asia to gain exclusive and comprehensive insight into the lucrative business opportunities with SMBs in 2011, and for years to come. This is the premier conference for service providers—hosters, communications service providers (CSPs), value-added resellers (VARs), software vendors (ISVs), even web designers—looking to rapidly and profitably deliver the widest range of integrated, easy-to-use Cloud services that small businesses are eager to acquire.

Contact:
Nicholas Ferguson
Bite Communications
+65.6323.7377
nicholas.ferguson@bitecommunications.com

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