Posted on May 18, 2012 by admin

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a renowned scholar in the field of psychology, said, “In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.” That’s one of the biggest reasons SoftLayer shares a weekly internal newsletter with SLayers in all [...]

Posted on May 16, 2012 by admin

This guest blog comes to us from Distil.it, a featured member of the SoftLayer Technology Partners Marketplace. Distil is the first content protection network that helps companies identify and block malicious content scraping and data theft. In this video we talk to Distil CEO Rami Essaid about how the company developed, their participation in the [...]

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin

Chris Gardner (of The Pursuit of Happyness fame) said, “Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.” Now I can’t honestly tell you I’m able to “forget about money” or that I’m much of a morning [...]

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin

Citrix Synergy 2012 took over San Francisco this week. Because Citrix is one of SoftLayer’s technology partners, you know we were in the house, and I thought I’d share a few SoftLayer-specific highlights from the conference. Before I get too far, I should probably back up give you a little context for what the show [...]