One of SoftLayer’s greatest advantages over competitors, is the ability to look like the data center your client is used to. We offer a level of customization that competitors can’t deliver. Often times a picture is worth a thousand words and you can show this simple diagram to your clients to give them a view of how their environments are designed.
Take a look at a logical picture of a SoftLayer data center. We can see the the triple network architecture as it represents the 2 separate networks and one unified network. Along the top in the grey area is the public network, which uses the public internet. Below that is the private network which includes a separate environment that only utilizes SoftLayer’s private global network. Then, the management network allows for communication across the whole environment.
Everything is Customer controlled – they can create their own VLANs for security or performance, add additional hardware like firewalls, etc. We call this a datacenter in a datacenter design because your clients can literally build separate environments within our datacenter.
Click The key point with this slide is to show your client that they have the ability to build their best datacenter within our SoftLayer environment. Depending on their workload needs, they can build a simple, single layered architecture on the public network for one application, and a three tier, physically separated architecture with multiple safeguards and performance accelerators for another.
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