SoftLayer
SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. currently ( IBM Cloud ) was a dedicated server, managed hosting, and cloud computing provider, founded in 2005 and acquired by IBM in 2013. Softlayer gained notoriety for hosting spammers, there were reportedly still issues in 2015.[1].
Subsidiary | |
Industry | Hosting |
Founded | 2005 |
Founder | Lance Crosby |
Defunct | 2013 |
Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, USA |
Products | Dedicated Hosting, Managed Services |
Parent | IBM (since 2013) |
Website | softlayer |
History
- Year 2005: SoftLayer was established in 2005 by Lance Crosby and several of his ex-coworkers.[2]
- Year 2010 - August: GI Partners acquired a majority equity stake in SoftLayer in August 2010.
- Year 2010 - November: In November of that year it merged the company with The Planet Internet Services, SoftLayer's biggest competitor, and consolidated the customer base under the SoftLayer brand.[3][4]
- Year 2011 - Q1: In Q1 2011, the company reported hosting more than 81,000 servers for more than 26,000 customers in locations throughout the United States.[5]
- Year 2011 - July: In July 2011, the company announced plans for international expansion to Amsterdam and Singapore to add to the existing network of North American-based data centers in Dallas (Texas), San Jose (California), Seattle (Washington), Santiago de Querétaro (Mexico), Houston (Texas) and Washington, D.C..[6] Most of these data centers were leased via Digital Realty Trust.[7]
- Year 2013 June 4: On June 4, 2013, IBM announced its acquisition of SoftLayer under undisclosed financial terms, in a deal that according to Reuters could have fetched more than $2 billion,[8] to form an IBM Cloud Services Division.[9][10] At the time of acquisition, SoftLayer was described as the biggest privately held cloud infrastructure provider (IaaS) in the world.[11]
- Year 2015 - May: As of May 2015, the company has 23 data centers in 11 different countries.[12]
- Year 2018: By 2018, SoftLayer was renamed to IBM Cloud.[13]
References
- "world's worst spam support ISPs — Krebs on Security". Retrieved 2020-02-22.
- Bort, Julie (January 28, 2015). "A Top IBM Cloud Leader Has Left As The Company Shuffles Execs". Business Insider. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- Damouni, Nadia (March 15, 2013). "Exclusive: EMC, IBM eye web hosting company SoftLayer- sources". Reuters. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- "Hosting Companies The Planet And SoftLayer Complete Merger". TechCrunch. November 8, 2010. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- Miller, Rich (May 17, 2011). "SoftLayer: $78 Million in First Quarter Revenue". datacenterknowledge.com. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- Rich Miller (July 26, 2011). "SoftLayer Goes Global With its Network". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- "Digital Realty Signs SoftLayer to Data Centre Lease in Singapore". News release. October 10, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- Saba, Jennifer. "IBM to buy website hosting service SoftLayer". reuters.com. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
- "IBM to Acquire SoftLayer to Accelerate Adoption of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise: IBM to Form New Cloud Services Division". News release. IBM. June 4, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- "IBM (IBM) to Acquire Public Cloud Provider SoftLayer". Street Insider. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- Holland, Maggie (9 October 2014) IBM and SoftLayer: What a difference a year makes ITPro, Retrieved 18 May 2015
- "SoftLayer Data Centers". Retrieved 2015-05-19.
- SoftLayer's new name: IBM Cloud, 2018 IBM, Retrieved 18 January 2019
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