Deploying Mesos on Blue Box using Scalr
Infrastructure as a Service is only as powerful as the things you do with it. That’s why our focus at Blue Box, an IBM Company, is to provide an exceptional open private cloud experience without the...
View ArticleGartner Data Center Infrastructure & Operations Management 2015
A week ago I represented Blue Box at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management conference in Las Vegas. I had attended a couple of years ago and this year it seemed like the...
View ArticleThe Tipping Point for Joining Blue Box, an IBM Company
The overall IBM Cloud Strategy is something customers have asked for in the market, and to date, no single vendor has been able to deliver. That strategy was the tipping point for me joining the team...
View ArticleThe Best is Yet to Come
First off, I’d like to give a bit of background. I’ve been in the software development industry for over a decade. I’ve worked the “full stack” from database to the front-end, from on-premises...
View ArticleKickin’ Around the Cloud
The first time I interacted with folks from Blue Box was at RailsConf in Las Vegas. It was my first real Ruby/Rails conference and I was overwhelmed with information. The Blue Box folks were nice and...
View ArticleMemorable Moments from 2015
Overcrowded gyms, health food trends and resolutions to kick bad habits—all signs telling us that it must be January.At Blue Box, we love bantering about the New Year and all of the clichés that come...
View ArticleFrom Monolith to Modular - Why You Should Break Down Your Application
You and your team have focused on building the best application possible. It does everything you need it to, from the unique business logic you’ve worked out to its design, to the authentication pieces...
View ArticleIBM Blue Box, Watch and Learn
After only a month in my new job at Blue Box, an IBM Company, I had the opportunity to travel to Tokyo for the OpenStack Summit. Attending the event gave me a great way to join the fast development...
View ArticleReflections on SkiPHP 2016
SkiPHP is a conference organized by members of the Utah PHP Users Group (UPHPUG), centered around Salt Lake City, Utah. The goal of the conference is to bring diverse speakers from different coding...
View ArticleWhy Application Modularization Matters: Testing.
Preface: A few weeks ago my colleague PJ Hagerty wrote about driving your existing monolithic application toward a more modular design. This time around I will dive a little bit deeper as to why it is...
View ArticleWhy Application Modularization Matters: Testing.
Preface: A few weeks ago my colleague PJ Hagerty wrote about driving your existing monolithic application toward a more modular design. This time around I’ll dive a little bit deeper into why its...
View ArticleBlue Box in the house! It’s almost time for IBM InterConnect.
As we prepare for our first experience at InterConnect as an IBM company, it’s insane to think how far we’ve come since Interconnect 2015 where we began our discussions with the IBM Cloud leadership...
View ArticleFixin’ to vote for Austin Summit Speakers? Cast your ballot for Blue Boxers.
Though it may feel like we just returned from Tokyo, voting is now open for the next OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas. I’d be remiss if I didn’t impress upon you the importance of submitting your...
View ArticleWhy Application Modularization Matters: Testing
Preface: A few weeks ago my colleague PJ Hagerty wrote about driving your existing monolithic application toward a more modular design. This time around I’ll dive a little bit deeper into its...
View ArticleCloud Expo Europe: The world’s biggest, best attended and multi-award winning...
The technology world is brimming with business solutions and innovations designed to make organizations run smoothly. The tough part is figuring out how to make all of the moving pieces fit together,...
View ArticleBeyond Interconnect 2016: What’s next for Blue Box
Our team was recently on-site in Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect, and it was clear that interest in Blue Box is at an all time high! This is especially encouraging given what we have in store for the...
View ArticleYou asked for it. You got it! OpenStack 101
Despite IBM’s longtime commitment to open technology, at Blue Box we continue to get the question, “What is OpenStack?”While there are OpenStack user groups, meetups, events and solutions, ultimately...
View ArticleWho says elephants can’t dance at a karaoke bar in a pirate costume?
Believe it or not, I’m an old timer at IBM—this May will be my 12th year at big blue (gasp). Starting just after my freshman year of Electrical Engineering school, I’ve been around long enough that my...
View ArticleBuilding Your Billion-Dollar System of Record
Ajay Agarwal wrote an enticing article recently, advising those in the SaaS space to pay attention to software that acts as a "system of record" (SOR). He defines SOR as "software that serves as the...
View ArticleIBM Blue Box Dedicated Gets Hip with HIPAA
As IBM Blue Box continues its destiny to evangelize our offerings across industry segments, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of our HIPAA-enabled Blue Box Dedicated offering....
View ArticleEd Saipetch to Share Hybrid Best Practices at Cloud Expo Europe
The IBM Blue Box team are headed to London for Cloud Expo Europe April 12 – 13 to talk about the unique role that private cloud as a service has in enabling hybrid cloud for enterprises large and...
View ArticleForging Ahead in the Private Cloud Race
The IBM Blue Box team has been busy enhancing IBM Blue Box Dedicated since it was announced last year. In addition to making it HIPAA-enabled to help healthcare companies run regulated workloads, we’ve...
View ArticleOpenStack Goes Down Under for Australia Day
OpenStack Australia Day is the first OpenStack conference down under. Held in Sydney at The Menzies on May 5, it’s “set to be the region’s largest, and Australia’s first, conference focusing on Open...
View ArticleDon’t Miss OpenStack Day Israel in Tel Aviv
OpenStack Day Israel brings leaders from the region and all around the world to discuss production deployments of the world’s most widely adopted open source cloud software. The local thriving...
View ArticleDeath of Distro Revisted / OpenStack Day Australia
I had the pleasure to attend OpenStack Day Australia last week in Sydney. It was a packed house of several hundred for the first OpenStack event in Australia. It won’t be long before the Summit will be...
View ArticleLimitations. You could do without them.
Ed Saipetch, Zach Leonardi and Laura Ashley from the Blue Box team are headed to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.What does it mean to perform without limits? Limitless performance...
View ArticleBluemix on Blue Box - Powered by Relay
Cloud Foundry and OpenStack During the recently concluded OpenStack Summit in Austin, OpenStack COO Mark Collier, published stats showing Cloud Foundry as the 2nd most popular workload running on...
View ArticleAnd Ya Don’t Stop: OSCON 2016
The presence of Hip Hop was palpable at OSCON this year. Well, there’s a sentence I never thought I would write, but hold tight and let me explain …Day one of sessions kicked off with Sammus, a...
View ArticleCloud Matters: Private Cloud for the Enterprise
“People are ready to go and ready to use this technology.”In this first video in our Cloud Matters series, IBM Distinguished Engineer & Blue Box CTO Jesse Proudman discusses why private cloud is a...
View ArticleCloud Matters: The Open Source Solution for Enterprise
“Open source projects continue to evolve and change more rapidly than they ever have before.”In this second video in our Cloud Matters series, Ed Saipetch, Senior Director of the Office of the CTO,...
View ArticleCF Summit: forging community and technology
May 25th marked the end of the latest Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, California. From humble beginnings back in September of 2013 as Platform: The Cloud Foundry Conference, this year brought...
View ArticleCloud Matters: The Golden Era of Collaboration
“It’s hard to imagine a world without open source.”In this third video in our Cloud Matters series, Cloudsoft Founder and CEO Duncan Johnston-Watt, an IBM Blue Box client, talks about the great...
View ArticlePyCon 2016 Recap + Blue Box
No community-driven conference has changed the way I think of open source communities like PyCon, right from the very first time I attended. Friendly, welcoming, inclusive, unassuming. That feeling of...
View ArticleACM ICPC World Finals: Battle of the Brains 2016
I had the amazing opportunity to be part of the IBM sponsorship team at of the 40th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) World Finals in Phuket, Thailand last month. I was...
View ArticleOpenStack Silicon Valley: August 9 & 10
On Tuesday, August 9, thought leadership from the OpenStack community will gather for two days of discussions on what's new and cool in OpenStack, hosted at the famous Computer History Museum in...
View ArticleM-m-m-my Mitaka
Today, we finalized our latest release based on Mitaka, the 13th release of OpenStack. Since IBM Blue Box manages OpenStack private clouds on behalf of our customers, we have initiated the upgrade...
View ArticleDelivering HIPAA on IBM Blue Box Local
Continuing the rich tradition of delivering on-time releases with pizazz, IBM Blue Box has done it again by delivering a HIPAA-enabled Local version of Private Cloud as a Service. Now you can have your...
View ArticleLoad Balancing as a Service on IBM Blue Box
Hey everyone, I'd like to talk today about creating and operating an LBaaSv2 load balancer on a Managed IBM Blue Box OpenStack cloud. Let's start out with the command line arguments, and we can run...
View ArticleCloud Matters: The Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud
“The IDC projects that 80% of enterprises are pursuing and investing in hybrid technology.”In this fourth video in our Cloud Matters series, IBM Blue Box Senior Director of Product André Bearfield...
View ArticleGetting Started with Kubernetes on IBM Blue Box
Kubernetes is an open source container cluster manager. It can automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. While deploying individual containers with something like...
View ArticleOpenStack East: Aug 23 & 24
The first OpenStack East happens next month, and will feature three of our own speakers:Shamail Tahir will present OpenStack by the Numbers on August 23 at 3:45 p.m.Tassoula Kokkoris will moderate the...
View Articlegithub.ibm.com Running on Blue Box
Tasked with helping transform IBM, a year ago, our CIO office’s Whitewater team selected Github Enterprise as the next-generation software repository for IBM’s engineering teams. And while I’m not one...
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EuroPython 2016: Pythonic Epicenter in the Heart of Basque Country
I have been involved in the Python community in different capacities for years. First as a user of the language, then as conference attendee followed by a position as tutorials committee chair and...
View ArticleCloud Matters: The Demand for Open Source Strategies
“I see OpenStack evolving into a world class platform for all enterprises.”In this fifth video in our Cloud Matters series, IBM Blue Box Director of offering Management Hernan Alvarez talks about all...
View ArticleThe Zombie Apocalypse and Other Cloud Infrastructure Concerns | @CloudExpo...
Last month, I returned from an overseas trip to a friend’s wedding to find the zombie apocalypse happening in my neighborhood near downtown San Jose. People of all ages and demographics united together...
View ArticleWe’re Hiring
Want to be part of an energetic team? Are you passionate about cloud technology? If so, let's talk.Please get in touch if you're interested in any of the following open positions:OpenStack Support...
View ArticleWebinar: 451 Research, IBM Blue Box, and Cloudsoft
IBM Blue Box would like to invite you to our webinar with Cloudsoft and 451 Research, Thursday, September 22 at 10:45 EDT. In this webinar, we’ll share the latest best practices on OpenStack...
View ArticleIBM Blue Box Continues its Path Toward Keeping Your Cloud Environment Safe
Security is critical for your data and IBM Blue Box offers key capabilities designed to help you construct a security-rich private cloud environment. Our team works with independent auditors to meet...
View ArticleSo Many Summit Sessions, So Little Time
We’re less than a week away from OpenStack Summit Barcelona! As you’re packing those last crucial items, finding your passport and brushing up on your Spanish, don’t forget to download the Summit App....
View ArticleIBM Blue Box is Now Part of IBM Bluemix
Have you heard the news? We're pleased to announce that IBM Bluemix is combining offerings from IBM Bluemix, SoftLayer—and Blue Box—to bring you cloud deployment options and infrastructure services for...
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