Japan's DataHotel Teams with IBM's Softlayer

DataHotel, a Japan-based managed hosting service provider for mobile and smartphone application developers, has selected IBM's SoftLayer as its cloud infrastructure provider of choice.

With its flagship service, “DATAHOTEL for App.” DataHotel manages the IT infrastructure for gaming and smartphone application developers, allowing customers to focus on development rather than IT maintenance.  SoftLayer said its bare metal servers allow DataHotel to support its customers’ complex frameworks in a way that virtual machines could not. Further, the dedicated network and low latency that SoftLayer’s cloud provides allows DataHotel to maintain the security and performance that it needs to drive global expansion.

“DataHotel 's use of the IBM's SoftLayer cloud is a powerful example of how transformative cloud computing can be,” said Lance Crosby, Chief Executive Officer of SoftLayer, an IBM Company. “By simply moving its IT environment onto IBM's SoftLayer cloud infrastructure, DataHotel eliminated the cost, complexity and logistical constraints that it otherwise would have faced in deploying a traditional IT environment to support its global expansion.”

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