Tips for the Unseasoned Traveler
This year has been exciting for me at SoftLayer. I took on a new role here as a member of our marketing team, and in that role, I’ve played a big role in our trade shows. We participate in a huge...
View ArticleTop 10 SoftLayer Facts
At conferences and tradeshows, I have the opportunity to meet hundreds of people. While a good number of attendees at technical conferences will come up to our booth and tell me they’re already...
View ArticleSLayer 101: A Whirlwind First Week
Having been client in the past, I already had some idea of how amazing the SoftLayer team was. Every interaction I had with the company was fantastic, and though I’ve worked with hundreds of service...
View ArticleServer Challenge = Global Domination?
The Server Challenge has become an all-out attraction. What started out as a little game we brought to SxSW last year has evolved into a competition attendees anxiously await. In the past month, we’ve...
View ArticleSocial Media and the SoftLayer Server Challenge
I’ve been working at SoftLayer for almost ten months now, in my relatively short tenure, I’ve written hundreds (if not thousands) of tweets covering a broad range of topics and events … As a Social...
View ArticleNew Swag, New Booth, New Product Announcement: SoftLayer at Cloud Expo East 2012
When a SLayers pack their bags and heads to the ‘Big Apple,’ we go BIG. Our most recent trip to NYC for Cloud Expo East proved that statement over and over again. When I heard I’d be one of the...
View ArticleBuilding the SoftLayer Team – Inside and Outside the Office
Almost a year ago, I walked into SoftLayer for the first time as an employee, but it wasn’t my first encounter with the business. I knew quite a bit about SoftLayer (and what it would be like to work...
View ArticleWe’re Shipping Up to Boston – HostingCon 2012
It’s that time of year again … HostingCon is upon us, and we’re faced with an interesting challenge: Go even bigger and badder in Boston than we did at HostingCon 2011 in San Diego. And that’s a tall...
View ArticleThe Dragon SLayers
It’s been a couple weeks since we last posted blog post featuring what SLayers are doing outside the office, so I thought I’d share my experience from a couple months ago when SoftLayer competed in the...
View ArticleInterop 2013 – SoftLayer + Supermicro Server Challenge II
The SoftLayer team visited Las Vegas for Interop 2013, and attendees from around the world stopped by our booth to take on the infamous Server Challenge II. The challenge was completed more than two...
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