{"id":41150,"date":"2011-10-30T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/3-bars-3-questions-singapore\/"},"modified":"2011-10-30T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T15:45:42","slug":"3-bars-3-questions-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetology\/3-bars-3-questions-singapore.php","title":{"rendered":"3 Bars | 3 Questions: Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few months since the last <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.softlayer.com\/2011\/3-bars-3-questions-softlayer-culture\/\">3 Bars 3 Questions<\/a> with &#8220;The Mitch,&#8221; and between then and now, a lot has changed in the SoftLayer world. The biggest difference: Our technicians have traveled around the world to build out data centers in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.softlayer.com\/2011\/global-expansion-singapore-is-live\/\">Singapore<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.softlayer.com\/2011\/global-expansion-amsterdam-ready-to-launch\/\">Amsterdam<\/a>. I joined SoftLayer as general manager of the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, and when I took a trip to Dallas to meet the rest of the team, Kevin was able to convince me to answer a few questions on video about what&#8217;s been going on in Singapore:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Asia is the largest growth market for SoftLayer right now, and the flood of orders we&#8217;ve had to keep up with in our Singapore branch is a testament to the customer demand in that region. With our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.softlayer.com\/2011\/globalization-and-hosting-the-world-wide-web-is-flat\/\">ambitious growth plans<\/a> and early successes in SNG, you&#8217;ll be seeing a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/softlayer\/sets\/72157627446583545\/\">SoftLayermobiles<\/a> delivering servers around the world pretty soon. Maybe we need a SoftLayerOceanTanker?<\/p>\n<p>When I made trip to Dallas, I met Jonathan Wisler, another newly hired SLayer responsible for the Amsterdam data center and our future Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) expansion. Because I didn&#8217;t want him to feel left out, I selected him as my successor in the next 3 Bars 3 Questions interview.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about SoftLayer in Asia, our Singapore data center or Singapore in general, just let me know.<\/p>\n<p>-Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few months since the last 3 Bars 3 Questions with &#8220;The Mitch,&#8221; and between then and now, a lot has changed in the SoftLayer world. The biggest difference: Our technicians have traveled around the world to build &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/planetology\/3-bars-3-questions-singapore.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}