It was a hectic 90 days from acquisition to the announcement that Blue Box would integrate with IBM’s OpenStack private Cloud options, where it would sit with subsidiary SoftLayer.

In addition to personnel integration, the companies worked together on the technical integration. “It’s a real testament to the technical and engineering staff at Blue Box to be able to take a standard, well-built platform for data centers and deliver it in SoftLayer,” said Tyler Britten, technical marketing manager for Blue Box. “It was exciting to see how quicky everything could come together.”

Britten joined John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SilconANGLE Media team. Britten said that Blue Box will not replace any other IBM OpenStack configuration; it will merely provide an additional option. “We will focus on three areas when it comes to OpenStack,” said Britten. “Traditional private Cloud as a Service, which Blue Box delivers in SoftLayer, Blue Box local, where customers can use OpenStack as a service on premises, and public Cloud. IBM has made clear it is not moving out of the public Cloud space.”

As for OpenStack’s development, Britten remains optimistic about its future. “We’re starting to see real traction,” he said. “Even negative energy is a positive result because that means people are trying it, deploying it, rather than just talking about it. It’s on the cusp of large-scale enterprise adoption.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.

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