The conversation has shifted from why cloud, to when and how cloud. This deck draws attention to the five migration Rs in the customer journey to cloud, and the appropriate as-a-Service model that would fit.
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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
14. How do I get started?
What does the customer experience look like?
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BROWSE
https://www.telstra.com.au/business-
enterprise/solutions/cloud-services/public-
cloud/softlayer
BUY
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 fromthe 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 mostof 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, sentimentand
topic clusters about the eventin 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 builta new
cloud lab on SoftLayer.
Enrollmentand retention have
both increased by 30%.
