Case Study: SoftLayer achieves on-demand, turn-key private clouds with Citrix CloudPlatform

SoftLayer provides on-demand private clouds with Citrix CloudPlatform

SoftLayer, a global on‑demand datacenter and hosting provider and the largest privately held IaaS company, needed a more flexible private cloud offering. Traditional “carved‑out” private clouds limited customer architecture choices, and customers with large deployments lacked efficient management tools, so SoftLayer set out to build a turnkey private cloud that preserved existing automation and infrastructure investments.

SoftLayer selected Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack) and integrated it with Citrix XenServer and NetScaler to deliver on‑demand, customizable private clouds. The solution seamlessly plugged into SoftLayer’s architecture, enabling rapid, scalable deployments, greater customer choice and cloud mobility — allowing customers to design bespoke clouds, move workloads between on‑premises and SoftLayer environments, and deploy enterprise‑ready clouds in hours.

Softlayer

Nathan Day

Chief Scientist