<p>Drew Jenkins, channel chief at SoftLayer, an IBM Company, said the company is aggressively recruiting MSPs to adopt its cloud infrastructure services.</p><p>"IBM is working with over 5,000 MSPs on cloud-based initiatives, and having SoftLayer in their portfolio provides a platform which can be extremely beneficial for those MSPs," Jenkins told CRN. "Our focus on automation and flexible billing makes it easy for those MSPs to have an infrastructure provider and partner that is more flexible to their needs."</p><p>Jenkins said MSPs learn quickly that hosting applications and services themselves can be difficult and costly, especially during periods of rapid growth. "There's a significant number of MSPs out there that are tired of doing it on their own," he said.</p><p>[Related: Movers And Shakers: Here's Who Made Gartner's 2013 Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant]</p><p><a href="http://www.crn.com/news/security/240163185/ibm-acquired-softlayer-puts-the-call-out-to-msps.htm">Keep reading...</a></p>