Blue Box
IBM’s OpenStack-powered Blue Box Cloud Dedicated now available on SoftLayer
There are two certainties that IBM Cloud leaders hold: 1. Clients want a hybrid cloud strategy where they can control what happens and where. This allows clients to do things faster at scale. 2. Open source is the foundation of innovative application development in the cloud. If you’ve been following its evolution, you know IBM […]
Blue Box founder Proudman talks OSCON, OpenStack, IBM future
When IBM announced in June that it had acquired Seattle-based Blue Box, which offers private clouds as a service via OpenStack, analysts and IT experts called it a step forward for IBM’s hybrid cloud capabilities. Now more than a month into the relationship—and with OSCON fast approaching—we wanted to get a better idea of where Blue […]
OpenStack: The myth of the middle
The middle is where self-declared reasonable minds gather to split the difference between seemingly irresolvable extremes. And so it is with OpenStack. Back in the wild-West days of Diablo and Essex, agile app dev ardents attracted by the open alternative of OpenStack had two choices: build it yourself (DIY), or sign up with Rackspace. Polar […]
Blue Box founder Jesse Proudman: Joining IBM was ‘best move’
Blue Box is now part of Big Blue. IBM today announced that it has reached a deal to acquire innovative cloud company Blue Box. The Seattle-based startup helps its clients tap into its OpenStack-powered hosted private cloud service, which promises to fit with IBM’s ongoing emphasis on open cloud technologies like OpenStack and Cloud Foundry. […]