Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider SoftLayer has been making all the right noises since its acquisition by IBM back in July.

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.

And for Jonathan Wisler, EMEA general manager, speaking at Apps World Europe earlier today, things couldn’t be any smoother.

“It’s been really good,” Wisler tells CloudTech. “In the short term, it’s opened up a lot of opportunities with customers, and the customers are asking for cloud, which is a great place to be.

“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,” he adds.

It’s a straightforward enough value proposition; SoftLayer, as a “purely …