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Access Logs: A Look at Egypt’s Current Usage
Social unrest can affect our ability to serve our customers. In Egypt, the government recently cut off nearly all access to the Internet, so customers trying to access our servers from Egyptian IP...
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Under the Hood of ‘The Cloud’
When we designed the CloudLayer Computing platform, our goal was to create an offering where customers would be able to customize and build cloud computing instances that specifically meet their needs:...
View ArticleSocial Marketing v. Social Media – And Them Cowboys?
Once again the Dallas Cowboys let a game they weren’t supposed to win slip away from them in the 4th quarter. Again it was Tony “oops” Romo that had a hand (or “didn’t have hands”) in the loss. I can’t...
View ArticleThe Sun Never Sets on SoftLayer
We’ve always set our sights globally at SoftLayer and this week we’ve certainly achieved some key milestones. With our data center in Singapore going LIVE, we now have a “digital gateway” for providing...
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The Few. The Proud. The Red Herring Top 100.
Last week, I had the privilege of attending Red Herring‘s Top 100 North America Tech Award ceremony in Santa Monica. If you’re not familiar with Red Herring, it harkens back to the headier days of the...
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SoftLayer Private Clouds – A Cloud to Call Your Own
Those of us who’ve been in this industry for years have seen computing evolve pretty significantly, especially recently. We started with dedicated servers running a single operating system, and we were...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Open DNS Resolvers
In the last couple of days, there’s been a bit of buzz about “open DNS resolvers” and DNS amplification DDoS attacks, and SoftLayer’s name has been brought up a few times. In a blog post on October 30,...
View Article2012 at SoftLayer: A Year-End Review
It’s already December 18, so you’ve probably read a few dozen “Best of 2012″ and “Looking Back on 2012″ articles around the web by now. I hope that you indulge me as I add one more tally to that list …...
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