SoftLayer,competitive ISAS

SoftLayer operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. Headquartered in Dallas and with an infrastructure spanning data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe, SoftLayer’s unified architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a full-featured API andsophisticated automation controlling a flexible platform that seamlessly integrates physical and virtual devices, allowing customers to deploy public cloud instances, bare metal servers and turnkey private clouds in real-time, and a global network for secure, low-latency communications. With 100,000 serversunder management, SoftLayer is the largest privately held infrastructure-as-a-service provider in the world with a portfolio of leading-edge customers from Web startups to global enterprises.It is accquired by IBM in 2013.

Now IBM provide the SoftLayer 30-day free trial for enterprise.You can take chance to have a trial at here.

Most of us are not famliar with  SoftLayer technoledge.What SoftLayer can bring us?Below video the SoftLayer CEO will tell you more details about his company and their business.

What makes SoftLayer different? Softlayer differentiates itself along three main axes – Workload I/O intensity, infrastructure control.

What kind of detail service they provide and what is thier feature? If you have seen the below screenshot you might understand it.Everything starts from the physical server based on the x86 platform.  From this core platform your able to order bare metal servers, private clouds (hyper-visors), virtual servers as well as HPC servers all from the portal and any of these servers can be interconnected with each other.

Also SoftLayer provide a web protal for user to manage his cloud on the site.

Predictable Billing: With SoftLayer you get services on a monthly or hourly contract. No long term commitments or surprise usage fees.
This allows you to order services on demand to meet your current workload requirements.
Many competitors add charges for the resources you use.  For example: compute cycles per second, or bandwidth usage for inbound and outbound.  Our systems come with 5TB (bare metal) and 1TB bandwidth outbound and all private network traffic and public inbound traffic is unmetered.  Resources are not shared so you can use 100% of the resources you purchased without being billed anything extra.
Many gaming companies come to us not only for our performance but because they can budget their IaaS needs much easier even when workloads increase.
Price is inclusive of support as well.  You can contact a 24/7 support personnel via ticket, chat or voice anytime of the day for no extra cost.  Many providers will charge extra or not provide any support unless you are one of their primary accounts.

If  you are interested it,you can start to apply for a trial first,