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While I manage environments across multiple cloud platforms (and even the occasional "traditional" colo) at my workplace, our primary application environment is in IBM Softlayer. I enjoy working with Softlayer -- the API is fairly robust, there's a lot of choice (even bare-metal, should that tickle your fancy) and it allows me to deploy instances in both Toronto and Montreal. Canadian data-residency is a "big deal" for many Canadian companies; which the