Building cloud infrastructure: The importance of scale, speed, and flexibility William Lim Asia Channel Development Manager, SoftLayer
Global cloud leader Formed by 10 industry veterans in 2005 Model predicated on software-driven infrastructure Unencumbered by early-industry legacy restrictions Founding principles Innovation, Empowerment, Automation, Integration Acquired by IBM in July 2013 2
A working definition Infrastructure on 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, security, and isolation are required 3
Global cloud platform Unified architecture enabled by powerful software Only infrastructure solution with a common management interface and API across a unified architecture Mix and match bare metal servers, virtual server instances, and turnkey private clouds, and manage them from a single control pane or API All deployed on-demand and provisioned automatically in real-time 4
Triple-network architecture High-performance public network with transit from multiple tier-1 carriers Secure OOB management via VPN Private network for intra-application and inter-facility communications, access to shared services Native IPv6 support Virtual racks for integrated management Complete suite of network services 5
Global footprint Frankfurt Paris India China Hong Kong Tokyo Seattle San Jose Los Angeles Denver Houston Toronto Chicago Dallas Montreal New York City Washington D.C. Atlanta Miami London Amsterdam Mexico City Singapore BRAZIL Sydney Melbourne DATA CENTER & NETWORK POINT OF PRESENCE PLANNED DATA CENTER & NETWORK POINT OF PRESENCE (2014) NETWORK POINT OF PRESENCE IPv4/IPv6 dual stack Global DNS Global DDOS Mitigation Global Internet Exchanges & Peering
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