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On Cloud Nine: My First Two Months at SoftLayer
I’m on cloud nine at Softlayer. I know “cloud” is probably the most confusing term I can use about how happy I am to be a SLayer because I’m not talking about public cloud, private cloud, or bare metal...
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TechStars Cloud @ SoftLayer – DAL05 Data Center Tour
Last week was HUGE for the inaugural class of companies in the TechStars Cloud accelerator in San Antonio. The program’s three-month term concluded with “Demo Day” on Wednesday where all of the...
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Real Men Wear Pink … In Their Hair
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a Dallas-based charitable foundation that raises millions of dollars for breast cancer education, research, treatment and awareness every year, and given SoftLayer’s...
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Fundraising Success = Pink Hair
Last Saturday, June 2, SoftLayer participated in the Pink Soles in Motion BBQ Cook-Off. The infamous 3Bars BBQ crew loaded up the grills and set out for Harley Davison of North Texas in Carrollton to...
View ArticleSoftLayer ‘Cribs’≡ DAL05 Data Center Tour
The highlight of any customer visit to a SoftLayer office is always the data center tour. The infrastructure in our data centers is the hardware platform on which many of our customers build and run...
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Work Hard, Prank Hard.
Hard work is nothing new to the SoftLayer staff — we strive for perfection in everything we do. We give ourselves strict deadlines, we always push ourselves to give the best support possible, and we...
View ArticleThe Dragon SLayers
It’s been a couple weeks since we last posted blog post featuring what SLayers are doing outside the office, so I thought I’d share my experience from a couple months ago when SoftLayer competed in the...
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Giving From (and For) the Heart
This time of year is often referred to as “The Season of Giving,” and we thought we’d share two SLayers’ stories about their involvement in the American Heart Association Heart Walk. Like last year, we...
View ArticleData Center Power-Up: Installing a 2-Megawatt Generator
When I was a kid, my living room often served as a “job site” where I managed a fleet of construction vehicles. Scaled-down versions of cranes, dump trucks, bulldozers and tractor-trailers littered the...
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Tech Wildcatters Pitch Day (From a Unique Perspective)
In a classic scene from Duck Soup, Groucho Marx (as Rufus T. Firefly) is given a report, and he responds, “Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old...
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