Virtualizing Our Childhoods – There’s Money to be Made
Here’s a couple of my childhood memories for you. Today, they’ve been virtualized. And monetized. Shooting Up the Neighborhood The kids in my neighborhood would get home from school, crank out the...
View ArticleSoftLayer Thinks “Outside the Box”
Now, before a worldwide game of MBA buzz-word bingo breaks out, hear me out. Here at SoftLayer, we really do think “outside the box.” And when I say “box” – I really mean “server.” Since our inception,...
View ArticleVirtualized Datacenters
It shouldn’t be any surprise to people who know SoftLayer that we follow the “Virtual Datacenter” discussions quite closely. In fact, it is awesome to see people discussing what sounds a lot like what...
View ArticleParadigm Shift
From the beginning of my coming of age in the IT industry, It’s been one thing – Windows. As a system administrator in a highly mobile Windows environment, you learn a thing or two to make things tick,...
View ArticleHosting is Dead. Long Live Hosting!
If you weren’t able to join us in Orlando for Parallels Summit 2011, you missed out on a great conference. More than 1,500 peers, partners and industry influencers shared a wealth of knowledge, some...
View ArticleCyberlinkASP: Tech Partner Spotlight
This is a guest blog from Chris Lantrip, CEO of CyberlinkASP, an application service provider focused on hosting, upgrading and managing the industry’s best software. Company Website:...
View ArticleVerecloud: Tech Partner Spotlight
This is a guest blog from Verecloud, a technology partner that makes it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to shop for, select, purchase, manage and monitor the performance of their cloud...
View ArticleICC Global Hosting: Tech Partner Spotlight
This is a guest blog from ICC Global Hosting’s Mark Moeller. ICC’s Hosted Virtual Desktop delivers full-featured Windows desktop computing environments, including Microsoft Office, anti-virus, and data...
View ArticleA Brief History of Cloud Computing
Believe it or not, “cloud computing” concepts date back to the 1950s when large-scale mainframes were made available to schools and corporations. The mainframe’s colossal hardware infrastructure was...
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