Softlayer

In June, 2013 IBM announced acquisition of Softlayer company which is engaged in software development for integration of private and public cloud servers. Representatives of the companies still frostily comment on an event and do not disclose transaction amount. Sources of Wall Street Journal claim that Softlayer will cost IBM $2 billion.

"By means of Softlayer IBM will accelerate deployment of infrastructure of our cloud available to all to provide to our clients an opportunity to use new opportunities for business development", - the senior vice president of IBM for global technology services Eric Klimenti is sure.

Practices of Softlayer which are based on the open standard of cloud computing OpenStack allow to increase the customer base quicker. At the same time applications will be better are protected from the intervention of the third parties thanks to software from IBM created within the IBM SmartCloud project.

At the end of May of IBM lifted the forecast for financial performance for the closest two years of year. By 2015 earning per share in the amount of $20 against $15.25 received in 2012 is predicted. In addition the company is going to spend $50 billion for share repurchase of stocks and $20 billion more for dividend payout in the next years that, undoubtedly, increased optimism of investors concerning IBM.

The SoftLayer company will be a part of new division of IBM on development of cloud services which will integrate developments of SoftLayer and the solution IBM SmartCloud. The new structure of the company will be headed by the CEO James Comfort. The division will specialize in providing full range of services and solutions both for clients of IBM, and for clients of SoftLayer and also independent software suppliers, trading and technology partners.

Acquisition of SoftLayer will allow IBM to offer the industry the new product integrating in itself security aids and data protection, high standards of reliability of private clouds and also profitability and high performance of a public cloud environment. The SoftLayer company offers the innovation opportunity of effective creation of cloud infrastructure for the Internet companies, government institutions and large industrial enterprises.

SoftLayer acquisition – one of strategic initiatives of IBM in the field of cloud computing reflecting aspiration of the company to development of a portfolio of cloud services. Income of IBM from sales and providing cloud services grew by 80% in 2012. Being one of the leading suppliers of cloud solutions in the world, IBM expects growth of income from this business to 7 billion dollars by the end of 2015. IBM offers customers more than 100 solutions SaaS who help specialists in the field of marketing, of purchases, e-commerce, client service, personnel management and the municipal government to make the correct decisions and to raise the service level of clients. A task of IBM is promotion of open standards of cloud computing.

SoftLayer dedicated servers

Dedicated servers of SoftLayer company give even more opportunities, than ever before — each server in a basic equipment has the ascending network channels of 100 Mbps. All offers include about 5 TB outbound traffics in public network. Besides, we increased initial amount of RAM and disk space in all classes of our servers, lowered quotations on RAM and increased the volume of the provided traffic for all extension packages when preserving the former prices.

• 5 TB outbound traffics on public network connections, in a basic equipment
• The ascending network channels of 100 Mbps in a basic equipment
• The increased initial amount of RAM in the majority of servers
• The increased initial volume of a subsystem of storage in the majority of servers
• Reduced quotations on accumulation of RAM
• The increased traffic volume in extension packages
• Initial rate: 159 dollars/month *
  • Study all standard offers or extension packages.

Dedicated servers are Advantages

• Deployment in real time
  • your time is a valuable resource. Thanks to our automated platform your server will be deployed approximately in two hours that will allow you to get to work quickly.

• Monthly contracts
  • the Client has an opportunity to scale or increase the environment without the need for review or the termination of the long-term agreement.

• CloudLayer Computing
  • Free integration and control of dedicated servers and cloud servers using only one management system, one account and one account thanks to our completely automated platform. The client receives complete freedom – he can combine power and capacity of dedicated servers with scalability and flexibility of the virtual systems without any compromises or inconveniences.

• System of deployment of the Flex ImagesTM servers
  • Flex Images – our technology of the next generation for fixing and deployment of images – allows the client to create images on the basis of cloud or dedicated servers, to save them in uniform library of images, and then to unroll them on the systems of any type. It allows the client to manage dedicated servers using such opportunities which were available only in virtual infrastructure earlier (for example, an opportunity to quickly clone and reboot servers), or with ease to perform migration between servers of different types.

• High-speed and advanced global network of data centers
  • our global network (13 data processing centers and 16 points of network presence) has cumulative capacity more than 2000G.

• Comprehensive protection of the server
• Round-the-clock support