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title: "SoftLayer: AI company profile, people and coverage"
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wikidata: Q7553838
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# SoftLayer

> IBM Cloud is a cloud computing platform offered by the information technology company IBM that provides a suite of services including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), serverless, Cloud storage, disaster recovery and backup, and managed cloud services. The IBM Cloud platform supports public cloud, private cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployment models with an emphasis on enterprise security, governance, and regulated workloads.

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## Facts

- Category: Data and infrastructure
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2005-01-01
- Dissolved: 2013-01-01
- Headquarters: Dallas
- Status: closed
- Website: http://www.softlayer.com
- Also known as: SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
- Industries: cloud computing, Internet industry

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2012-01-20: Form D, USD 49.4 million sold of a USD 49.4 million offering, 3 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1499423/000149942312000001/))
- 2010-11-23: Form D, USD 356.3 million sold of a USD 356.3 million offering, 31 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1499423/000149942310000002/))
- 2010-08-18: Form D, USD 348.7 million sold of a USD 348.7 million offering, 52 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1499423/000149942310000001/))

## Ownership

Parent: [IBM](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm.md)

## Products

- infrastructure as a service

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on SoftLayer, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-softlayer#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7553838, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Cloud
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001499423

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