Jesse Proudman, founder and CTO of Blue Box (News - Alert), had a simple but grand vision: deploy a private cloud anywhere in the world in under an hour. In just five months, the company appears to be well on the way there and states that it has built “unbelievable momentum.”
A pioneering PCaaS provider, Blue Box launched its private- cloud-as-a-service offering in May 2014. Since then it has seemingly been in great demand; not only has it added customers but existing customers have been adding additional capacity and capabilities to their Blue Box Cloud deployments as well. Many notable companies have adopted Blue Box Cloud.
That the company was able to close a $10 million series B financing is to its credit. This provides the necessary capital to deliver on its next phase of planning: to bring private cloud as a service to more customers and partners and help in product innovation and development.
The company has strengthened its engineering and sales teams with talent from reputed companies, while Proudman has rounded out a powerhouse senior management team and promoted others. The new executive leadership appointments are to build on Blue Box's exceptional momentum and growth. All of them bring extensive experience from leading high-growth companies, and their expertise and successful track records are expected to further bolster the company and propel it to the next stage of growth.
Blue Box's recently launched partner program will enable partners to quickly add 'cloud' to their portfolio with minimal investment, making it easy for them to earn profit margins with what is touted to be the 'best-in-class Blue Box Cloud PCaaS solution.' This solution allows channel partners to convert their customers to cloud infrastructure instead of losing them to competition.
The company's partnership with Equinix (News - Alert) is seen as a step toward the broader goal of increasing the company’s global data center footprint, evident in the Blue Box cloud being deployed across three data centers across two continents.
Blue Box has been doing all it takes to provide customers with the agility and elasticity of public cloud coupled with the benefits of traditional, on-premises private cloud. In addition its month-to-month pricing, available for an initial cloud cluster as well as in increments, offers clients the flexibility they require when workload demands change over time.
Proudman has every reason to be proud of the company's achievements in such a short time; “While we are not there yet, we've made incredible progress in just five months,” he said.
Blue Box seems to be going places and right now does appear unstoppable.