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Blue Box Prospers under IBM Ownership at OpenStack Tokyo [VIDEO]

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Sean Michael Kerner
Nov 3, 2015

IBM acquired privately-held managed OpenStack vendor Blue Box in June of this year. Now barely six months later, Blue Box is out with a new solution and the company’s founder is aggressively hiring major talent in the OpenStack developer space. Proudman has managed to attract 55 people to help IBM build out its OpenStack cloud efforts.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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