March 8, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Internap (http://www.internap.com/) has signed ‘next generation’ web hosting provider SoftLayer (http://www.softlayer.com) to expand its on-demand hosting platform throughout the United States, it was reported recently. The contract is worth $40 Million over a 5 year period. The two companies will work together to enable businesses to operate "serverless IT departments" through “real-time technology, network-within-the-network services and automated installation, monitoring and management tools.”
“Internap and SoftLayer are bringing to the market a new, tightly coupled managed hosting model that is delivering enterprise-class, large-scale computing by the slice,” explained SoftLayer’s Chief Executive Officer, Lance Crosby. “With Internap we’ve been able to get to market faster and deliver higher quality solutions that our customers value and are core to their business operations. The combination of Internap’s world-class IP networking, data center colocation and content delivery network (CDN), along with SoftLayer’s innovative product development, flexible deployment and automation tools, creates and delivers the most advanced on-demand hosting services available today.”
“SoftLayer and Internap have rapidly and successfully deployed a powerful, on-demand hosting infrastructure to support enterprise applications, rich media and online business,” added Internap’s Chief Executive Officer, James P. DeBlasio. “The demand for these services has been very strong and is driving us to expand the model across the United States leveraging Internap’s network and data center solutions and SoftLayer’s innovative Web hosting products, exceptional service delivery and automated operations. Together, we will be able to deliver a robust set of enterprise-class IT solutions to a broader marketplace than ever before.”
Headquartered in Plano, Texas, USA, SoftLayer delivers web hosting and on-demand datacenter services located in Dallas, Texas and Seattle, Washington. Established in 1996, Internap provides “The Ultimate Online Experience” by “managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with unsurpassed performance and reliability”.
