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Open stack private cloud vendor Blue Box and systems integrator Alliance Technology (Alliance) are co-developing on-premise version of Blue Box Cloud due on the market in June 2015.
The system is an OpenStack-powered private cloud that runs in a client’s data center or colocation premises but is installed, configured and managed by a single vendor.
The Blue Box Cloud is described as a private cloud as a service (PCaaS) offering which has the best of both public and private cloud in a hosted, managed delivery model.
Control box
While Blue Box has the technology and operations expertise, Alliance will provide feedback from lessons learned as a cloud infrastructure service provider.
The Blue Box Cloud is for those customers that need private cloud infrastructure to be physically located in data center space that they control, according to Hernan Alvarez, Blue Box’s chief product officer.
Customers want control, performance, security and cost predictability, according to Alvarez, but the biggest driver is the new phenomenon of ‘data gravity’. This is the high cost of time and bandwidth involved in moving large data sets on and off the premises. A private cloud obviates the need for these expensive transfers, according to Alvarez.
“Blue Box Cloud delivers what public clouds can’t - data sovereignty and security, governance and compliance, dedicated performance and cost predictability,” said Alvarez. “You can get this all without the headaches of managing the underlying cloud infrastructure.”
A managed service brings ultimate proximity to data, in a time when data has gravity, said Alvarez.
Customers want an OpenStack cloud infrastructure resource without the burden of installing and managing it, said Chris Williams, technology VP for systems integrator Alliance. They want the technology in house, under their control, but they also want an OpenStack ‘easy button’ said Williams.
“This joint development delivers precisely that - OpenStack-powered infrastructure, ready to roll to your data center at a moment’s notice,” said Williams.