Blue Box Launches Managed Hosting Offering For OpenStack Private Clouds

Grazed from Cloud Computing Today. Author: Arnal Dayaratna, Ph.D.

Blue Box recently announced the release of its early adopter program for OpenStack Hosted Private Cloud. As a result, customers interested in developing applications on OpenStack can now turn to Blue Box for help with the likes of deployment and configuration, load balancing, scalability and customer support. Blue Box’s managed, OpenStack private cloud offering will be based on code released directly by the OpenStack Foundation. As such, the solution leverages OpenStack Nova for compute, Neutron-based software defined networking, a Horizon web interface for configuration and resource allocation and Keystone for authentication and policy management.

The early adopter program supports recent releases such as OpenStack Havana and Grizzly and plans to update OpenStack deployments to subsequent releases from the OpenStack Foundation as they become available. Key components of the Blue Box offering include management of OpenStack orchestration, “including monitoring and release management,” according to the company’s press release. Blue Box also delivers security functionality that accommodates HIPAA and PCI protocols…

In a recent blog post, Blue Box CEO Jesse Proudman noted that the five key attributes of a private cloud solution are ease of use, the ability to integrate with a customer’s existing IT infrastructure, security, cost transparency and cost control and elasticity. Proudman told Cloud Computing Today that Blue Box’s managed OpenStack private cloud solution delivers on all five aforementioned attributes, and additionally delivers deployments more nimbly, with greater consultative attention than its counterparts in the industry…

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