Cloud is not a commodity, and no matter what you call it, computing doesn’t come out of the sky. It comes from physical hardware inside brick and mortar facilities connected by hundreds of miles of networking cable and no two clouds are built the same way.

SoftLayer gives you the highest performing cloud infrastructure available. One platform that takes data centres around the world that are full of the widest range of cloud computing options, and then integrates and automates everything.

In this exclusive interview with Crayon, Jonathon Wisler, IBM SoftLayer expert discusses the key questions around hybrid cloud and the next generation cloud powerful platform.