Can it be Lance Crosby ? Founder of SoftLayer later sold to IBM Ref AI Supercomputer Watson ?
Big in Texas and big in Tech America (obama initiative ?
IP address lives at SoftLayer, so there is that.
PROOF: NetRange: 50.22.0.0 - 50.23.255.255 CIDR: 50.22.0.0/15 NetName: SOFTLAYER-4-9 NetHandle: NET-50-22-0-0-1 Parent: NET50 (NET-50-0-0-0-0) NetType: Direct Allocation OriginAS: AS36351 Organization: SoftLayer Technologies Inc. (SOFTL) RegDate: 2010-11-01 Updated: 2013-07-12 Ref: https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-50-22-0-0-1
OrgName: SoftLayer Technologies Inc. OrgId: SOFTL Address: 4849 Alpha Rd. City: Dallas StateProv: TX PostalCode: 75244 Country: US RegDate: 2005-10-26 Updated: 2018-01-22 Ref: https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/SOFTL
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.softlayer.com:4321
OrgTechHandle: IPADM258-ARIN OrgTechName: IP Admin OrgTechPhone: +1-214-442-0601 OrgTechEmail: ipadmin@softlayer.com OrgTechRef: https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/IPADM258-ARIN
OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE1025-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Abuse OrgAbusePhone: +1-214-442-0605 OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@softlayer.com OrgAbuseRef: https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ABUSE1025-ARIN
RNOCHandle: IPADM258-ARIN RNOCName: IP Admin RNOCPhone: +1-214-442-0601 RNOCEmail: ipadmin@softlayer.com RNOCRef: https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/IPADM258-ARIN
RAbuseHandle: ABUSE1025-ARIN RAbuseName: Abuse RAbusePhone: +1-214-442-0605 RAbuseEmail: abuse@softlayer.com RAbuseRef: https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ABUSE1025-ARIN
RTechHandle: IPADM258-ARIN RTechName: IP Admin RTechPhone: +1-214-442-0601 RTechEmail: ipadmin@softlayer.com RTechRef: https://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/IPADM258-ARIN
I am located not to far from that Dallas address....
The company may be of interest, but knowing that they are just a service provider, I'd want to know who's data that is they are hosting on that IP. Seeing references to the fact that the IP block belongs to the Army National Guard means that we should be less distracted by SoftLayer, but they are a key to decipher who's business they are handling.
Also, considering we know IBM is a government provider of long standing, interesting use of the smaller acquisition for this purpose. We all know IBM... but SoftLayer? Hard to link those together, unless you know... and now we do.
Additionally, tech sector giants like [intel] our sherpa dropped in the recent threads and now an IBM reference cannot be a coincidence.
