Five months after acquiring Blue Box, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) has unveiled an OpenStack-based private cloud that can run on user’s data center. The service dubbed Blue Box Local becomes available from November 30 and will allow users to absorb features from all existing IBM Cloud Open Stack Services.
Developing Private Cloud Environments
Interested parties will have to explore the deployment capacity in their data centers before tabling orders. On surveying the capacity required, IBM should be able to build a rack and deliver it on site. With all the power and network connections in place, users should be able to work on their OpenStack, which Blue Box and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) can also manage remotely.
Big companies and organizations will no longer have to wait for months or even years to get their private cloud installations up and running. Blue Box Local makes it easy to develop a private cloud environment with a simple help from International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM).
Blue Box Investment Paying Off
IBM is ramping up support for its cloud offering having already rolled out Bluemix platform that can run behind any firewall. The Acquisition of Blue Box is slowly paying off seen by the developments big blue has already made on cloud computing.
Blue Box first developed its OpenStack-based private cloud that ran on dedicated hardware in four data centers in 2013. However, Blue Box Local has to be its biggest product yet on being acquired by International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM). The fact that the technology can be placed in customer’s data centers makes it a big achievement as the race for the next big thing on the cloud heats up.
Even though there are customers that cherish public clouds, IBM expects more customers to start embracing private cloud going forward. There are companies that have invested a great deal on database technologies and would wish to develop next generation applications adjacent to their current workloads.
Healthcare and banks are some of the entities that International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) believes will find Blue Box Local to be of great help. Most of these entities find it hard to store critical data on a public cloud always prone to attacks.