{"id":9256,"date":"2013-10-21T23:36:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T23:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/oct\/22\/why-softlayer-believes-really-good-future-ibm-appsworld\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T23:36:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T23:36:13","slug":"why-softlayer-believes-in-a-really-good-future-with-ibm-appsworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-softlayer-believes-in-a-really-good-future-with-ibm-appsworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Why SoftLayer believes in a \u201creally good\u201d future with IBM #AppsWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider SoftLayer has been making all the right noises since its acquisition by IBM back in July.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month CloudTech reported on the health of the IBM-SoftLayer relationship, with many IBM divisions reputed to be actively collaborating with the SoftLayer team to migrate existing apps and develop new ones.<\/p>\n<p>And for Jonathan Wisler, EMEA general manager, speaking at Apps World Europe earlier today, things couldn&rsquo;t be any smoother.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been really good,&rdquo; Wisler tells CloudTech. &ldquo;In the short term, it&rsquo;s opened up a lot of opportunities with customers, and the customers are asking for cloud, which is a great place to be.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And then also IBM is deploying some of their software as a solution on their stack, which is another validation of their belief in the platform,&rdquo; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a straightforward enough value proposition; SoftLayer, as a &ldquo;purely &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider SoftLayer has been making all the right noises since its acquisition by IBM back in July.<br \/>\nEarlier this month CloudTech reported on the health of the IBM-SoftLayer relationship, with many IBM divisions reputed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}