IBM aims to simplify the private cloud for businesses. Image: Shutterstock
Having earlier this month rolled out the Bluemix Local platform as a service for firms to run behind their own firewall, IBM today has taken the wraps off an OpenStack on-premise private cloud service - a fruit of its June acquisition of Blue Box.
The new on-premise environment, IBM Blue Box Local, will absorb features from the existing IBM Cloud OpenStack Services offering which it replaces, when it becomes available from November 30.
With IBM Blue Box Local, after a site survey to determine the deployment capacity required, the customer buys the hardware as prescribed in a compatibility list. IBM then builds the rack and delivers it to the customer site. Once the power and network connections are made, the entire environment is then managed remotely by Blue Box and IBM.
"If you look at most private-cloud installations, they're measured in months or years to get up and running," IBM Blue Box CTO Jesse Proudman said.
"There are sites where typically the customer goes and buys a software distribution from a vendor, and they have to figure out how to train their people in that software distribution. They have to figure out how to operate that environment - what do they do when they get a monitoring alert?
"It becomes challenging to derive immediate value from that cloud.
"We're trying to take all that out of the mix and put a small portion of the IBM cloud footprint in that customer site," he said.
Having been in business since 2003, Blue Box created its OpenStack-based hosted private cloud some two years ago. Before the IBM acquisition, that product ran on dedicated hardware in four Blue Box datacenters around the world.
Following the IBM purchase, the first jointly-released product was the porting of that dedicated offering onto IBM's Softlayer cloud in early September. IBM Blue Box Local is essentially that same technology but placed within a customer's datacenter.
IBM launches Bluemix Local, aims to bridge public, private clouds with data center
IBM launches Bluemix Local, aims to bridge public, private clouds with data center
Read More: http://www.zdnet.com/article/now-ibm-unveils-blue-box-local-on-prem-openstack-private-cloud-service/
Having earlier this month rolled out the Bluemix Local platform as a service for firms to run behind their own firewall, IBM today has taken the wraps off an OpenStack on-premise private cloud service - a fruit of its June acquisition of Blue Box.
The new on-premise environment, IBM Blue Box Local, will absorb features from the existing IBM Cloud OpenStack Services offering which it replaces, when it becomes available from November 30.
With IBM Blue Box Local, after a site survey to determine the deployment capacity required, the customer buys the hardware as prescribed in a compatibility list. IBM then builds the rack and delivers it to the customer site. Once the power and network connections are made, the entire environment is then managed remotely by Blue Box and IBM.
"If you look at most private-cloud installations, they're measured in months or years to get up and running," IBM Blue Box CTO Jesse Proudman said.
"There are sites where typically the customer goes and buys a software distribution from a vendor, and they have to figure out how to train their people in that software distribution. They have to figure out how to operate that environment - what do they do when they get a monitoring alert?
"It becomes challenging to derive immediate value from that cloud.
"We're trying to take all that out of the mix and put a small portion of the IBM cloud footprint in that customer site," he said.
Having been in business since 2003, Blue Box created its OpenStack-based hosted private cloud some two years ago. Before the IBM acquisition, that product ran on dedicated hardware in four Blue Box datacenters around the world.
Following the IBM purchase, the first jointly-released product was the porting of that dedicated offering onto IBM's Softlayer cloud in early September. IBM Blue Box Local is essentially that same technology but placed within a customer's datacenter.
IBM launches Bluemix Local, aims to bridge public, private clouds with data center
IBM launches Bluemix Local, aims to bridge public, private clouds with data center
Read More: http://www.zdnet.com/article/now-ibm-unveils-blue-box-local-on-prem-openstack-private-cloud-service/
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