Press Release

SoftLayer Technologies today announced it has maintained strong growth and outperformed all projections throughout 2008. The company provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize their resources and decrease their capital expenditures. SoftLayer’s growth continues despite general U.S. economic woes, indicating that the company’s model for providing outsourced IT environments has considerable mainstream market advantages.

“As much as we’ve accomplished this year, we keep moving forward, continuing to innovate and enhance our offerings and provide customers the ultimate virtual data center solutions,” said Lance Crosby, SoftLayer Chief Executive Officer. “In these tough economic times our solutions are more relevant than ever. We will be launching additional virtualization and cloud computing options that give our customers highly scalable, flexible solutions for their business’ computing needs.”

Through October of this year, SoftLayer has reached a number of key milestones, including:

• Annual recurring revenue of over $60 million, up from $33 million in 2007
• 40%+ EBITDA margins and growing
• Continued GAAP profitability
• More than 5,500 active customers across 110+ countries
• More than 18,000 deployed servers
• Receiving Tech Titans award for the fastest growing company in Dalla
• sPending completion of a SAS-70 Type II review in December 2008

Additionally, SoftLayer has expanded its leadership position this year through significant achievements such as:[]

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Launching of virtualization solutions including Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels Virtuozzo, and Citrix XenServer

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