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EIRCA and Softlayer

 

EIRCA and Softlayer: reliability and expertise combined

In April of 2008, EIRCA and Softlayer made their partnership official, making Softlayer the exclusive and official datacenter partner of EIRCA and, in turn, making EIRCA the official provider of Managed H-Sphere services on the Softlayer network.

The combination of Softlayer's ever-expanding infrastructure and EIRCA's dedication to technical excellence is a perfect match.

Who are Softlayer?

SoftLayer provides global, on-demand datacenter and hosting services from facilities across the U.S. Softlayer leverages best-in-class connectivity and technology to innovate industry-leading, fully automated solutions that empower enterprises with complete access, control, security, and scalability. With this insightful strategy and peerless technical execution, Softlayer have created the truly virtual datacenter—and made traditional hosting and managed/unmanaged services obsolete.

What does this mean for EIRCA clients, both potential and existing?

This partnership ushers in a new chapter for EIRCA and our clients. EIRCA's focus has long been to provide best-in-class services, this partnership allows us to realise the company's full potential by leveraging the incredible, industry leading infrastructure that softlayer have created. By being the only web hosting partner for softlayer, this gives us an incredible advantage and head-start on our competitors.

Why did Softlayer choose EIRCA; what do EIRCA bring to the table, and why not go directly to Softlayer?

Softlayer, as a company, provide an infrastructure, they do not provide managed services. A client going directly to Softlayer would get incredible hardware on the best network in the world, but unless they know how to manage and secure servers they would not be able to make use of Softlayer as a provider. EIRCA bridges that gap, by way of industry-reknowned technical support and managed services, broadening Softlayer's scope as an on-demand service provider. The expertise and skill-sets offered by the two companies go hand-in-hand and give a complete solution to almost any web hosting related problem.

Strategic partnerships by association

Via this new partnership with Softlayer, EIRCA inherits tiered partnerships with Microsoft, Red Hat, cPanel, McAfee, Cisco, Seagate and Parallels, for the latest, leading, 32- and 64-bit compatible software, provisioned using each vendor’s best practices to ensure maximum stability and uptime.

 

The Softlayer infrastructure

SoftLayer’s commitment to innovation, empowerment, and integration is demonstrated by tangible advantages for our customers, including:

Automated Services and Solutions

Softlayer's revolutionary solutions provide customer-controlled, automated management of core functions including server reboots, OS reloads, software upgrades/migrations, firewall and storage management, load balancing, and more. These invaluable services are not available from most other providers without costly, manual managed service plans.

Industry-Leading Customer Portal and Open API

Our proprietary interfaces provide administrators and their API-applications direct access to more than 100 backend systems and activities. These are executed without any human intermediation, dramatically streamlining server management and reducing cost of IT operations.

Secure Network-Within-a-Network Topology

The first-of-its-kind network is comprised of two distinct and redundant gigabit architectures. This delivers the ease of use of a public network with the security of a private one. Systems are fully accessible to administrators but safely off-limits from external users.

Immediate Scalability

Our commitment to simplified, on-demand scalability extends from purchase to growth, reduction, refresh, and even cancellation. Online ordering, guaranteed 2-4 hour server delivery, and online cancellation makes scaling up or down as easy and immediate as possible.

Integrated Geographical Diversity

Our datacenters are connected via private, 10G point-to-point connections, and integrated through proprietary automated tools for exceptional speed, redundancy, and flexibility. Customers can choose their server location on demand, create virtual racks containing servers in different physical locations, and even load balance between them.