Soft layer cloud without compromise
- 1. IBM SoftLayer – Cloud without compromise Andrzej Osmak Delivery Architect, IBM GSDC Poland © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 2. A global hosting leader Customers 21,000 in 140 countries Devices 100,000 Employees 685 Data centers 13 Network PoPs 17 Top 100,000 Sites By Hosting Provider Source: Hostcabi.net 2 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 3. A working definition Cloud (n) On-demand compute with consumptive billing • On-demand Rapidly provisioned services • Compute Servers, network, storage, firewalls, ancillary services • Consumptive billing Turns traditional fixed IT costs into variable – monthly or hourly • Initial model – virtualized multi-tenancy computing – does not meet requirements for 100% of applications and use cases • For broadest applicability, user-selectable levels of performance and isolation are required 3 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 4. A better platform Unified architecture with common management and programming interfaces • Common command and control interface across a unified architecture • Combine bare-metal servers, public cloud instances and private cloud deployments into distributed hybrid architectures and manage from a single control pane and API • All deployed on-demand and provisioned in real-time • Ideally suited to big data deployments, high I/O and latency-sensitive apps 4 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 5. Global footprint 13 data centers 17 network PoPs 100,000 SERVERS 21,000 22,000,000 CUSTOMERS DOMAINS Global private network 5 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 6. Service portfolio 6 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 7. Robust, full-featured API Improves customer control, reduces error, increases flexibility SoftLayer API provides 1,600 function calls to over 200 services Supports REST, SOAP & XML-RPC interfaces Enables full auto-scaling implementations Comprehensive documentation, libraries and support Functions include: • • • • • • • • • • • 7 Automatic server deployment Service provisioning Reboots & reloads Ticketing Hardware configuration Software load DNS Network Storage Security scans Monitoring © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 8. Complete control • Mobile and Web-based management portals • Purchase, provision, deploy & manage infrastructure • Access to services, tools, automation & tutorials • Secure access via VPN to management network • Two-factor authentication to Web portal 8 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 9. 21,000 leading-edge customers* Mobile & Communications Software as a Service Bump Voxer Instapaper Yelp Games and Entertainment Social Marketing and Digital Media Platform as a Service Enterprise Hosting & Service Providers * SoftLayer references 9 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 10. Try a cloud server FREE for one month. http://www.softlayer.com/info/free-cloud 10 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 11. Contact: Andrzej Osmak Delivery Architect IBM GSDC Poland andrzej.osmak@pl.ibm.com pl.linkedin.com/in/andrzejosmak Twitter: @aosmak 11 © 2014 IBM Corporation