Standardized. Modular. Integrated. Truly one platform, available by the hour or by the month.

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2 Virtual and physical. Public and private. Hourly and monthly. Our unified platform provides any cloud infrastructure you want, deployed on demand and in real time. That s cloud without compromise. It starts with our data centers located all over the world. Each is built to the same demanding spec, and each device from servers to power strips is connected to a single, integrated management system. That lets us automate deployment and control of the entire platform (bare metal as well as virtual) and extend that control to you through one Web portal and API for on-demand scalability and management. Then comes our network of networks, the industry s first, which segregates public, private, and management traffic. Redundant tier-1 carriers provide 2,000Gbps of connectivity between every data center and network point of presence. Physical and virtual servers around the world communicate like they are in one rack, with no special networking required. So you can deploy solutions designed precisely for your needs like none other. Deploy a Web tier of virtual servers around the world and distribute high-performance physical clusters for big data infrastructure. Connect virtual and bare metal, SAN and NAS, our searchable object storage solution, and protect it with a suite of firewalls and information security solutions. Even configure a complete private cloud to call your own. Standardized. Modular. Integrated. Truly one platform, available by the hour or by the month. If you have the idea, we have the infrastructure. Build the future on SoftLayer. Web Mobile API Common User Interface and API Global Platform With a growing number of data centers and network points of presence (POPs) linked via private 20GB point-to-point connections, SoftLayer puts you close to users around the world and gives you exceptional geographic diversity. Unparalleled Scale With more than 180,000+ physical servers under management, we re the largest infrastructure-as-aservice provider in the world, and the only one built from the ground up for today s Internet-scale applications. Modular Infrastructure From hourly virtual servers to high-performance bare metal, big data solutions, and full private clouds, you re not locked into a dozen virtual machine templates on a shared platform. Full Control Access more than 200 services via our API or portal. Provision servers, configure services, upgrade, reboot, scale in, and scale out. Bare Metal Servers Virtual Servers Private Clouds Unique Network within a Network Architecture allows seamless communication across distributed environments x86 Data Center Pod x86 Data Center Pod x86 Data Center Pod Infrastructure Management System provides orchestration and automation Our infrastructure platform seamlessly integrates bare metal servers, virtual servers, and private clouds via our global, advanced network architecture, all under the same control plane (Web portal, mobile apps, and robust API) SoftLayer Technologies. All Rights Reserved.

3 LONDON PARIS AMSTERDAM FRANKFURT MILAN 2 SEATTLE MONTREAL TORONTO TOKYO SAN JOSE > SAN JOSE DENVER CHICAGO NEW YORK CITY SHANGHAI 2 LOS ANGELES DALLAS ATLANTA WASHINGTON, D.C. INDIA 2 HONG KONG < TOKYO HOUSTON MIAMI LOS ANGELES > QUERÉTARO SINGAPORE < SINGAPORE SYDNEY LOS ANGELES > < MELBOURNE SAO PAULO 2 MELBOURNE DATA CENTER & NETWORK POP NETWORK POP NEW LOCATION PRIVATE NETWORK PRIVATE NETWORK EXPANSION 1 Current network POP; Future Data Center 2 Future Data Center and Network POP Power & Performance Having the best performance means more than getting the highest processing speed. We tune our entire platform (and every service we offer) to give you the industry s widest range of computing and storage options and unparalleled network capabilities when you need it, for as long you want it. If you want power, we ve got it. Highperformance bare metal, from entry-level single processor servers to quad proc, octo-core powerhouses, and GPUpowered high-performance computing nodes. Lightning-fast SSD storage options for the highest levels of I/O. A high-speed global network for worldwide access and availability. Processing and network performance at price/performance levels we ll put up against anyone s. And our delivery model performs at the same high level all our services deploy in real-time with no lengthy commitments. Automation & Control Open up most clouds and you might discover human beings are behind it rather than technology. That s the wrong answer people just don t scale at Internet speed. So we automated everything in our data centers. Everything. Then we built an API on top of it. And then a portal on top of that, providing a level of automation and control others can t touch. Every aspect of our operations is automated and integrated into a single management system, with API access to more than 3,700 command and control functions. So you can deploy or reboot servers, configure network settings, and reload software all remotely and at the touch of a button. Our services play at a higher level. Fully integrate with third-party applications. Eliminate layers of management. And radically simplify your operations. Flexibility & Choice Scalability isn t merely the ability to grow. It s the flexibility to start with what you want, grow however you need, and adjust whenever you choose. That s why we have such a wide range of computing, storage, and networking options. But moreover, it s why every service we provide is available in real time without minimum commitments or lengthy contracts. And to top it off, it s why we leverage our advantages in automation to provide innovative technologies that let you pick the right technology for today while preserving the ability to easily move to a different solution later. Like our Flex Images provisioning system that allows you to deploy virtual servers, move their images to bare metal servers and back again, and experience real-time cloning and image-based backup even with physical servers SoftLayer Technologies. All Rights Reserved.

4 physical resources, all available in real time, on demand. delivers a flexible Internet-scale platform that meshes virtualized and develop and build-out their online services, because the company scalability, performance and the time-to-market they require. Companies like AppFirst, Cloudant and Struq are turning to SoftLayer to rapidly Dallas Today s hottest tech companies are relying on SoftLayer Technologies, a leading provider of global cloud infrastructure, to achieve the Competition for Internet-Scale Cloud resources and ex successfully dev signed-up sever startups includin Excellence (ON just a few short Extreme Startup affiliated with th University Digit (DMZ), Innovat accelerators and GrowLab, Comm The Catalyst Pro relationships wi off the groun By working get some of t Technology Companies Select SoftLayer over Competition for Internet-Scale Cloud Infrastructure Dallas Today s hottest tech companies are relying on SoftLayer Technologies, a leading provider of global cloud infrastructure, to achieve the scalability, performance and the time-to-market they require. Companies like AppFirst, Cloudant and Struq are turning to SoftLayer to rapidly develop and build-out their online services, because the company delivers a flexible Internet-scale platform that meshes virtualized and physical resources, all available in real time, on demand. Confusing pricing schemes, long term lock-in contracts and performance bottlenecks were pretty SoftLaye gram Into Dallas SoftLay leading global p infrastructure, to expansion of its Canada, support dian incubators, startups. SoftLa Program will pr promising startu ture (servers, sto credits, executiv engineering reso limited financia By working get some of t off the groun The Catalyst Pro relationships wi accelerators and GrowLab, Comm University Digit (DMZ), Innovat Extreme Startup affiliated with th Excellence (ON just a few short signed-up sever startups includin Terminal-0, Gar DudePins, Maty SoftLayer s Ca designed to give neurs, innovator and small-mediu resources and ex successfully dev ideas, said Iain Communitech. we can get some off the ground a Recent Announcements Confusing pricing schemes, long term lock-in contracts and performance bottlenecks were pretty we can get some off the ground a ideas, said Iain Communitech. Q neurs, innovator and small-mediu SoftLayer s Ca designed to give Terminal-0, Gar DudePins, Maty Infrastructure limited financia

5 IBM Commits $1.2 Billion to Expand Global Cloud Footprint Builds a massive network of local cloud hubs for businesses worldwide with 40 data centers across five continents ARMONK, N.Y. 17 Jan 2014 IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to commit over $1.2 billion to significantly expand its global cloud footprint. This investment includes a network of cloud centers designed to bring clients greater flexibility, transparency and control over how they manage their data, run their business and deploy their IT operations locally in the cloud. This year IBM plans to deliver cloud services from 40 data centers worldwide in 15 countries and five continents globally, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. IBM will open 15 new centers worldwide adding to the existing global footprint of 13 global data centers from SoftLayer and 12 from IBM. Among the newest data centers to launch are China, Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, London, Japan, India, Canada, Mexico City and Dallas. With this announcement, IBM plans to have data centers in all major geographies and financial centers with plans to expand in the Middle East and Africa in By some estimates, the global cloud market is set to grow to $200 billion by 2020[1]; driven largely by businesses and government agencies deploying cloud services to market, sell, develop products, manage their supply chain and transform their business practices. IBM is continuing to invest in high growth areas, said Erich Clementi, senior vice president of IBM Global Technology Services. Last year, IBM made a big investment adding the $2 billion acquisition of SoftLayer to its existing high value cloud portfolio. Today s announcement is another major step in driving a global expansion of IBM s cloud footprint and helping clients drive transformation. The new cloud investments IBM is making will provide business clients the ability to place and control their data globally. SoftLayer gives clients the ability to choose a cloud environment and location that best suits their business needs and provides visibility and transparency to where data reside, control of data security and placement. SoftLayer is able to deliver high performance services globally across the SoftLayer network. The combination of distributed local data centers and a global network allows clients to place data where it is required, when it is required as well as the ability to consolidate or aggregate data as needed. This provides optimized application performance and responsiveness. SoftLayer s unique network architecture allows clients to optimize global performance using a private network and not be subject to the uncontrolled nature of the public networks and the Internet. Cloudant s global expansion rate is fueled by the always-on commitment we make to our customers, said Cloudant CEO Derek Schoettle. Our mission is to be the standard data layer for Web and mobile applications. That mission requires us to push application data to the network edge, in as many locations as possible. Expanding beyond SoftLayer s current footprint presents significant value to our business. The investment IBM is making to expand their global footprint will not only help fuel our growth, but the growth of thousands of Cloudant users worldwide as well. In today s world of rapid response with mobile and social data proliferation, this type of automation and speed of access to data with high availability and control makes SoftLayer cloud infrastructure an ideal capability for business clients worldwide. Cloud represents a growing area for venture capitalist investment, said Ann Winblad, co-founder and Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. By investing in the cloud ecosystem, IBM not only makes it easier for enterprises to adopt cloud and drive innovation, but also helps new companies of all sizes get off the ground more quickly. SoftLayer Underpins IBM s Growing Cloud Portfolio The acquisition of SoftLayer represents another major investment for IBM clients. Since its acquisition in 2013, SoftLayer has served nearly 2,400 new cloud clients. In fact, IBM plans to establish SoftLayer as the foundation of its wide ranging cloud portfolio. The SoftLayer infrastructure will provide a scalable, secure base for the global delivery of cloud services spanning IBM s extensive middleware and SaaS solutions. SoftLayer s flexibility and global network will also facilitate faster development, deployment and delivery of mobile, analytic, social solutions as clients adopt cloud as a delivery platform for IT operations and manage their business. Last week IBM made a significant investment and established the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive and Big Data innovations. As part of this initiative IBM will also deploy Watson on SoftLayer.

6 SoftLayer Introduces New Hourly Bare Metal Servers, Deployed in Minutes Provides even more flexibility and variety for demanding cloud workloads Dallas August 26, 2014 SoftLayer, an IBM Company, today announced the immediate availability of new bare metal servers that are deployed in under 30 minutes and billed by the hour. Hourly bare metal servers provide the raw performance of physical servers with shorter commitments, making it easier than ever to deploy computing-intensive workloads on SoftLayer at will. The servers can stand alone or completely integrate with all other SoftLayer bare metal, virtual, storage, and networking services, all in one seamless global platform. We have always focused on providing customers the right balance of performance, commitment, and cost, said Marc Jones, CTO for SoftLayer. As businesses deploy more powerful workloads in the cloud, there is increased demand for performance with even shorter demand cycles. Our new hourly bare metal servers are designed to hit the sweet spot of how much power they need, how long they need it, at price points that make sense. Cloud allows businesses to leverage on-demand resources to solve their IT challenges. Since business challenges vary on both a company-by-company and day-to-day basis, true cloud solutions must feature flexibility, diversity, and integration, said Melanie Posey, Research VP at IDC. The new hourly-rate bare metal servers use the same SoftLayer platform, control system, and API as the virtual server services providing customers with ondemand access to the right resources for the right workloads. The new hourly bare metal servers are single tenant servers connecting directly to SoftLayer s private global network. The SoftLayer global private network allows for seamless integration between data centers without additional networking fees, unlimited inter-data center bandwidth, and exceptional performance and security. Customers may choose from four base configurations with CentOS, Red Hat, FreeBSD, or Ubuntu operating system installed. The base configuration is deployed within 30 minutes, after which the server may be further customized with additional OS or application installations. Additional base configurations for hourly bare metal servers will be available in the coming months. The new hourly bare metal configurations are available immediately at SoftLayer s global data centers in Dallas, San Jose, Washington D.C., London, Toronto, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Hong Kong. For more information please visit /hourly-bare-metalservers. Processor Cores Core Speed RAM Storage Price/hour Intel Ghz 8 GB 2 x 1 TB SATA $0.47 Intel Ghz 32 GB 2 x 400 GB SSD $1.09 Intel Ghz 32 GB 4 x 1 TB SATA $0.93 Intel Ghz 64 GB 4 x 1 TB SATA $1.30

7 IBM Opens First Cloud Data Center With SoftLayer in Japan Tokyo facility enables data sovereignty, more compute capacity and security options for Japanese customers Tokyo December 22, 2014 Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the opening of its first cloud data center with SoftLayer in Japan, located in Tokyo. This announcement comes on the heels of recent SoftLayer cloud data center launches in Melbourne and Paris and represents the next step in IBM s $1.2 billion investment to expand its global cloud footprint. The facility in Tokyo complements other SoftLayer resources located in cities within the Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore, Hong Kong, and Melbourne and broadens data redundancy options and geographic diversity within IBM s growing number of cloud data centers worldwide. It also addresses the industry s growing concerns about data residency and privacy by offering a local Japanese facility to compute and store sensitive data that needs to remain in country. Since we established a Singapore cloud data center in September 2011, SoftLayer has seen tremendous growth in the Asia- Pacific market, said Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer, an IBM Company. Our new cloud data center in Tokyo will support this evolving market by offering locally the security, resiliency, and efficiency that customers are demanding around the world. The Tokyo cloud data center is launching at an opportune time for IBM Cloud. Between Q and Q3 2014, IBM Cloud s customer base in Japan increased more than 600 percent, and Japanese customers using its SoftLayer Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) now total more than 1,000. IBM Cloud s global expansion of SoftLayer cloud data centers, including the new facility in Tokyo, is good for our business, said Hiroyuki Mashita, managing director and vice president of PioneerVC Corporation. We are based in Japan and have clients located all over the world who use our real-time collaboration solution xsync Prime, which relies on SoftLayer s robust bare metal and virtual cloud servers, services, and worldwide network to provide a low-latency connection. We plan to move some of our clients accounts and domestic data into the new cloud data center as soon as it opens in Tokyo. The new facility will provide strategic support for local Asia-Pacific customers as well as global customers that want to reach local end users. SoftLayer s global network, differentiated by its unique network-withina-network architecture, offers 10Gbps connections to SoftLayer services, less than 50 milliseconds of latency from the Hong Kong cloud data center, and less than 270 milliseconds of latency from other SoftLayer cloud data centers around the world. Over the past two years, IBM Cloud s SoftLayer infrastructure has helped us provide a cost-efficient, robust, scalable, and responsive experience for our users, said Mark Sun, co-founder of Singaporebased MotionElements, a royalty-free worldwide stock media marketplace for Asia-focused digital artists. IBM Cloud has proven to be a very reliable technology provider for us, and we look forward to growing our business with their continued support. The Tokyo cloud data center has capacity for thousands of physical servers and offers the full range of SoftLayer cloud infrastructure services, including bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, and networking. It will seamlessly integrate via SoftLayer s leading private network with all SoftLayer cloud data centers and network points of presence (POPs) around the world. With services deployed on demand and full remote access and control, customers of the Tokyo center can create their ideal public, private, or hybrid cloud environments to deliver their services with low latency and ultimate efficiency, performance, and low latency. Customers can receive $ USD off of new orders for the Tokyo cloud data center for the first month of service, for a limited time. For more information about this discount, visit info/tokyo-hosting. For more information about SoftLayer s cloud centers, visit SoftLayer, an IBM Company, operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. With 100,000 devices under management and a global footprint of data centers and network points of presence, SoftLayer provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service to leading-edge customers ranging from Web startups to global enterprises. SoftLayer s modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a fullfeatured API and sophisticated automation controlling a flexible unified platform that seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices, and a worldwide network for secure, low-latency communications. For more information, please visit softlayer. com.

8 IBM Opens First Cloud Data Center With SoftLayer in Germany Frankfurt facility enables customers to meet strict German and European data security and sovereignty laws; speeds application performance Frankfurt January 7, 2015 As part of its $1.2 billion investment to expand its global cloud footprint, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the opening of its first cloud data center with SoftLayer in Germany. Located in Frankfurt, the new facility provides customers with a local cloud center to help them meet Germany and Europe s strict security and data privacy regulations, improving application performance by lowering latency for local customers. Data privacy regulations in the European Union (EU) are among the most stringent in the world, and Germany has one of the strongest policies, said Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer, an IBM Company. While all our cloud data centers have SoftLayer s same strict standards for security and privacy, the new Frankfurt facility will allow German companies and clients to benefit from in-country data storage, a requirement in many industries to comply with German data protection laws. The Frankfurt facility is part of SoftLayer s unique global network, differentiated by its network-within-a-network architecture, and offers 10Gbps connections to SoftLayer services, with only 7 milliseconds of latency from SoftLayer s Amsterdam facility and less than 330 milliseconds of latency from other SoftLayer cloud data centers around the world. It also complements existing European IBM Cloud facilities in Amsterdam, London, and Paris and broadens redundancy options and geographic diversity within EMEA and around the world by enabling backups that can be replicated and integrated in any other SoftLayer cloud data center, with free unmetered bandwidth between locations. In Germany, cloud adoption is on the rise, spurred by the cost savings and flexibility gained by moving operations and workloads to the cloud. The number of German enterprises using the cloud grew by 32 percent between 2012 and 2013, and The Experton Group forecasts the value of the cloud market in Germany at 18 billion by Germany consistently ranks within IBM Cloud s top five best-performing EMEA countries in terms of total monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and growth. German customers using IBM Cloud s SoftLayer infrastructure include those in the gaming, digital marketing and advertising, and online and IT services businesses. German customer Avira provides ITsecurity protection to computers, smartphones, servers, and networks, delivered as both software and cloudbased services. This year, the company introduced several new Internet security products, all built on IBM Cloud s SoftLayer infrastructure. IBM Cloud s SoftLayer was a dream partner the whole way, said Jason Radisson, executive vice president of online business for Avira. From the initial R&D work on a handful of bare metal servers through market release and rapid take up in our user base, SoftLayer responded to our requests swiftly and adroitly. Today, this infrastructure is handling hundreds of millions of requests per hour at peak times. Based on this experience, SoftLayer has become our go-to cloud infrastructure partner for scaling new products. The Frankfurt cloud center follows SoftLayer s standardized pod design, having the capacity for thousands of physical servers and offering the full range of cloud infrastructure services, including SoftLayer s bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, security services, and networking. It seamlessly integrates via the company s leading private network with all SoftLayer cloud data centers and network points of presence (PoPs) around the world. With services deployed on demand and full remote access and control, customers can create their ideal public, private, or hybrid cloud environments. Customers can receive $ USD off of new orders for the Frankfurt cloud data center for the first month of service, for a limited time. For more information about this discount, visit softlayer.com/info/frankfurt-hosting. For more information about SoftLayer s cloud centers, visit datacenters. SoftLayer, an IBM Company, operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. With 100,000 devices under management and a global footprint of data centers and network points of presence, SoftLayer provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service to leading-edge customers ranging from Web startups to global enterprises. SoftLayer s modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a fullfeatured API and sophisticated automation controlling a flexible unified platform that seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices, and a worldwide network for secure, low-latency communications. For more information, please visit softlayer. com.

9 SoftLayer to Offer OpenPOWER Servers to Help Clients Better Manage Workloads in the Cloud New POWER-based offering helps users leverage open community innovation, strengthening the IBM Cloud infrastructure Armonk, NY March 4, 2015 IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that SoftLayer will offer OpenPOWER-based servers as part of its portfolio of cloud-based services. With the new offering, clients will be able to select OpenPOWER-based bare metal servers when configuring their cloudbased IT infrastructure from SoftLayer, an IBM company. Leveraging the OpenPOWER Foundation design concept, the servers were developed to help clients better manage data-intensive workloads on public and private clouds. Increasingly, cloud technologies, both private and public, are enabling organizations to extend existing infrastructure inexpensively and quickly. Servers built on the OpenPOWER architecture are designed to facilitate that transformation. The new OpenPOWER-based bare metal servers make it easy for users to take advantage of one of the industry s most powerful and open server architectures, said Sonny Fulkerson, CIO at SoftLayer. The offering allows SoftLayer to deliver a higher level of performance, predictability, and dependability not always possible in virtualized cloud environments. OpenPOWER-based servers leverage IBM s licensable POWER processor technology and feature innovations resulting from open collaboration among OpenPOWER Foundation members, which now total more than 100 technology leaders worldwide. To develop the SoftLayer bare-metal server, IBM and SoftLayer worked closely with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members TYAN, a provider of advanced server/workstation platforms, and Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions. Due in the second quarter, the SoftLayer bare metal servers run Linux applications and are based on the IBM POWER8 architecture, the processor technology at the heart of IBM s Power Systems line of servers. The offering will also leverage the rapidly expanding community of developers contributing to the POWER ecosystem as well as independent software vendors that support Linux on Power application development who are migrating applications from x86 to POWER-based architecture. Built on open technology standards that begin at the chip level, the new bare metal servers are built to assist a wide range of businesses interested in building custom hybrid, private and public cloud solutions based on open technology. The new OpenPOWER bare metal servers will join SoftLayer s growing stable of POWER-based systems. The company first deployed Power Systems in 2014 to support the IBM Watson cloud portfolio. Initially, the new servers will be available in SoftLayer s Dallas cloud center, with planned expansion throughout the world. Cost and configurations for SoftLayer s new OpenPOWER-based bare metal servers will be made available in conjunction with general availability.

10 IBM Cloud Introduces New Storage Options for SoftLayer Cloud Servers New Block Storage and File Storage with Endurance and Performance Tiers Give Customers More Control Over their Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Dallas, Texas March 25, 2015 IBM today launched new Block Storage and File Storage for bare metal and virtual servers from SoftLayer, an IBM Company, with new Endurance and Performance classes of both solutions. The new storage offerings give SoftLayer users even more choice, flexibility, and control over their storage type, speed, and durability, letting them further optimize their cloud infrastructure s performance and cost. As businesses move to the cloud or create more amazing cloud-based services, the diversity of workloads we see is growing at an astonishing rate. No two workloads are the same, and each has a unique storage profile, said Marc Jones, CTO for SoftLayer. When an application or data set is mission critical, it is important to be able to control as many dimensions of its storage as possible. Being able to choose from a full range of storage types from block to file and object is great, but not enough. So as we created our new Block Storage and File Storage, we engineered them with Endurance and Performance options so that customers can fine tune their environment by whichever attribute is their highest priority. SoftLayer s new Block Storage and File Storage are built on an industry-leading storage architecture that seamlessly fuses solid-state drives ideal for computing operations that need higher input/output operations per second (IOPS) with enterprise-grade spinning disks allowing near-limitless scalability while minimizing costs. All Block Storage volumes and File Storage shares provide enterprise-grade performance and data durability, standard. They are also resilient, using high levels of data redundancy to protect data integrity and availability in case of events such as operational errors or hardware failure. But going even further, users can choose an Endurance-class level of either storage type, ideal for workloads that require the highest level of data durability. With Endurance, users can select the performance tier that matches the needs of their workload. Total performance is determined by volume size, with larger volumes having higher performance. Endurance class also provides additional storage features, including automated snapshots and replication, making it easy to seamlessly backup and mirror data between multiple SoftLayer cloud data centers. Multiple Endurance tiers allow customers to choose the right balance of performance and cost: volumes or shares can be ordered in sizes from 20GB to 12TB at a starting price of $0.15/GB. Alternatively, customers can select to have a Performance-class level of either storage type, perfect for workloads that require a specific level of input/output operations per second (IOPS). The Performance class allows users to specify the maximum level of IOPS that their storage must always deliver, independent of volume size. This level of storage is best suited for users with well-understood performance needs that fall outside of the tiers available within Endurance class. Performance class volumes and shares can be ordered in sizes ranging from 20GB to 12TB with user-selectable IOPS ranging from 100 to 6,000, with a starting price of $0.10/GB and $0.12/IOP. The new storage offerings define a new structure for SoftLayer s already extensive portfolio of storage options for SoftLayer bare metal and virtual servers, which includes Object Storage, an objectlevel storage system offering built on OpenStack Swift. SoftLayer s new Block Storage and File Storage are available in SoftLayer cloud data centers around the world. With these data centers seamlessly integrated through the advanced SoftLayer network including private network connectivity between all data centers and unlimited data center to data center data transfer customers can use the new storage offerings to create exceptionally robust and cost-effective data accessibility, backup, and recovery strategies. For more information, please visit www. softlayer.com/storage.