Introducing IBM Cloud via Telstra
Presented by
Andrea EspinosaHybrid Cloud Subject Matter Expert
Nicholas TsangSoftLayer Technical Presales
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We are living in a different era.
Mainframe ⟶ Client-Server ⟶ Web ⟶ SOA ⟶ Cloud 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Today
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How do we get to the cloud?The Five Rs
Re-host ReplaceRe-factor RebuildRevise
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Where does SoftLayer fit in?
Re-host ReplaceRe-factor RebuildRevise
IaaS SaaSPaaS
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Why does this matter?
Save time and money from re-factoring applications and re-training staff.
Spend it somewhere strategic in the business.
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How is it different?
“You could run <insert cloud here> on SoftLayer, but you can’t run SoftLayer on
<insert cloud here>.” – Kevin Hazard, Director of Digital Content, SoftLayer
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Enables existing VMware customers to easily and securely extend their existing workloads, as they are, from on-premises datacenters
to IBM Cloud.
Access VMware software via the SoftLayer Control Portal at flexible per month pricing without an ELA: vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus,
vSAN, NSX, vRealize, Site Recovery Manager.
Retain existing staff VMware skill sets and save on re-training costs.
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Customers can leverage jointly designed reference architectures and recommended bill of materials.
Deploy in any of 31 SoftLayer datacenters worldwide.
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“We could easily move our business to an on-demand model, with built-in resilience, where
we only use and pay for the IT capacity we need.” – Managing Director, HostUs
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“We chose SoftLayer 7 years ago to run FreeBSD and horizontally scalable bare
metal.” – Rick Reed, Deputy Prime Minister for Throughput, WhatsApp Inc
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“We wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for SoftLayer and GPU.” – Founder, Simply Wall St
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BROWSE
https://www.telstra.com.au/business-enterprise/solutions/cloud-services/public-cloud/softlayerBUY
Click ‘Register’ to start your order• Add ‘dealer code’ if assisted by a
partner• SoftLayer provisioned in 20 mins• You can also visit Cloud Services Store
buycloud.telstra.com to ‘Register’
CONFIGURE
Login to control.softlayer.com to use and provision new services in real-time.
CONNECT
For existing Next IP customers: • Order Cloud Gateway from the Cloud
Services Store at buycloud.telstra.com• Cloud Gateway to SoftLayer provisioned
in 6 days
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Game & Entertainment Media & Marketing Social Mobile & Communication
Developers Hosting & Service Providers Platform Providers Enterprises
SoftLayer supports 21,000+ customers around the world
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Companies using SoftLayer today.
Bare metal servers allow gaming vendors like kuuluu and Multiplay to scale raw iron easily to meet dynamic workload requirements.
SoftLayer’s comprehensive cloud platform allows SilverSky, an information security company recently acquired by BAE Systems, to better serve its email security and hosted exchange customers.
As technology partner of the Australian Open, IBM uses SoftLayer to underpin most of the real time analytics, SlamTracker, ReturnServe, and Social Leaderboard interfaces.
Bare metal and virtual servers on public and private networks host a front office web solution for boursorama.com. These are load balanced and delivered from SoftLayer Paris and Amsterdam.
For Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, the city used social media analytics to assess conversations through top words, sentiment and topic clusters about the event in real time. The solution was up and running on SoftLayer in less than six hours.
To expand its school of science and technology course offerings and provide students with research opportunities, St Thomas University built a new cloud lab on SoftLayer. Enrollment and retention have both increased by 30%.
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