introducing ibm cloud via telstra

Introducing IBM Cloud via Telstra

Presented by

Andrea EspinosaHybrid Cloud Subject Matter Expert

Nicholas TsangSoftLayer Technical Presales

Telstra Unrestricted

We are living in a different era.

Mainframe ⟶ Client-Server ⟶ Web ⟶ SOA ⟶ Cloud 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Today


How do we get to the cloud?The Five Rs

Re-host ReplaceRe-factor RebuildRevise


Where does SoftLayer fit in?


IaaS SaaSPaaS



IaaS SaaSPaaS


Why does this matter?

Save time and money from re-factoring applications and re-training staff.

Spend it somewhere strategic in the business.


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


How does SoftLayer do this?Automation beyond the hypervisor


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.


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


“We chose SoftLayer 7 years ago to run FreeBSD and horizontally scalable bare

metal.” – Rick Reed, Deputy Prime Minister for Throughput, WhatsApp Inc


“We wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for SoftLayer and GPU.” – Founder, Simply Wall St

How do I get started?What does the customer experience look like?


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


Game & Entertainment Media & Marketing Social Mobile & Communication

Developers Hosting & Service Providers Platform Providers Enterprises

SoftLayer supports 21,000+ customers around the world


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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