by Derrick Harris, +GigaOM

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"You might have heard of SoftLayer, but if you’re like me, you probably didn’t know the cloud provider is hosting operations for some of the web’s hottest apps. I assumed SoftLayer is more like enterprise cloud provider Terremark than it is like developer favorite Amazon Web Services — at least in its customer base if not in its technology — but I might have been wrong.

Here’s a list of services that run at least partially on the SoftLayer platform and that helped show me just how wrong I was…"

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http://gigaom.com/cloud/meet-the-cloud-behind-your-favorite-apps-and-its-not-aws/

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Meet the cloud behind your favorite apps (and it's not AWS)
You might have heard of SoftLayer, but if you're like me, you probably didn't know the cloud provider is hosting operations for some of the web's hottest apps. Among them are Tumblr, OMGPOP, SendGrid …

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