SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Dallas, Texas. SoftLayer, now an IBM company, operates a cloud infrastructure platform for companies building for Internet scalability. SoftLayer operates 13 state of the art data centers in different parts of world, with 11 located in United States. SoftLayer’s modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, with a full-featured API and sophisticated automation that spans physical and virtual devices for secure, low-latency communications. SoftLayer offers dedicated servers, cloud computing, cloud storage, content delivery network, email delivery service, managed hosting services, backup, database management, server monitoring, and security services such as SSL certificates, firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion protection, and disaster recovery. SoftLayer also provides Add On services like hard drives, SSDs and RAID, server memory/RAM, port speed and bandwidth, IP addresses, load balancing, private network VPN, Linux and Windows options, cPanel and Plesk, database options, hypervisors, server utilities, and message queue. The company also offers solutions like Big Data, disaster recovery, hybrid environments, private clouds, virtualization, Web 2.0 for small and medium businesses to large enterprises.