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SoftLayer™ Continues Data Center Expansion
New Pods Added to All Data Center Locations
DALLAS-December 2, 2009 – SoftLayer Technologies™, the innovative on-demand data center services
provider, today announced the opening of three new data center pods in the company’s Dallas, Seattle, and
Washington, D.C., data center facilities. The new pods add capacity for 20,000 additional servers, bringing
SoftLayer’s total capacity to more than 45,000 physical machines.
“We continue gaining momentum every year. We broke more projections and records this year than last, and
2010 will bring even more of the same,” said Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer. “These three new pods meet the
customer demand increases that we expect in the very near future. And they are only preliminary measures in our
growth strategy for 2010. We have some big plans which we can’t wait to share with everyone.”
SoftLayer’s milestones in 2009 included:
- More than 5,700 active customers across 110+ countries
- More than 23,000 deployed servers
- Placement in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services
- Introduction of CloudLayer™ line of cloud services, including CloudLayer Storage, CloudLayer CDN, CloudLayer Computing, and Bare Metal Cloud™
- Industry’s first deployment of Intel® Nehalem microarchitecture
- IPv6 support across all data centers
- Multiple carrier additions across all data centers for a total of 290Gbps
The new pods are part of SoftLayer’s unique approach to data center design. Each of the company’s
geographically diverse data centers consists of multiple pods built to identical specifications with the same bestin-
class methodologies. This level of standardization across all its geographic locations enables SoftLayer to
optimize key data center performance variables, including space, power, network, personnel, and internal
infrastructure.
About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, SoftLayer is a best-in-class, infrastructure-as-a-service provider with data centers in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC, and network Points of Presence across the US. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements, allowing customers to create cloud, dedicated, or seamless hybrid computing environments managed through a single interface. Enterprises of any size can have complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management in an on-demand IT solution. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638.
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