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Private Cloud as a service, powered by OpenStackIncrease your IT agility by using a leading open source cloud platform that’s fully managed

Looking to work with, not on OpenStack? IBM Blue Box, a private-cloud as a service (PCaaS), can be deployed almost as quickly and easily as public cloud. Your physical hardware and data center operations are taken care of by IBM Blue Box, allowing customers to focus on their development lifecycle.

Why OpenStack?Developed by a growing community of cloud technologists, the goal of the OpenStack project is to increase the velocity of cloud adoption with an industry-leading open source operating system. This frees IBM BlueBox customers from proprietary vendors and allows them to scale competitively.

Key benefits

• Private cloud as a service (PCaaS) provides increased security, control and performance over public cloud options

• Powered by OpenStack – industry standard open cloud technology

• Single tenant, dedicated hardware

• Available in IBM Blue Box data centers or yours

• Fully managed and maintained by OpenStack specialists

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IBM Blue Box advantage IBM Blue Box gives you the power of OpenStack, on your terms. Harness the benefits of OpenStack and avoid the headaches.• IBM Blue Box does the “heavy lifting” of the deployment and

management of your private cloud.• Open technologies are used that help you avoid lock-in.• IBM Blue Box is Open by design, helping ensure full

interoperability and flexibility.

In the IBM Blue Box data center or yours?Looking for private cloud with the ease of public cloud at a low cost entry point? Start with Blue Box Dedicated, which starts with three nodes and can scale to hundreds of nodes. Need the security, performance and control of a managed OpenStack private cloud in your data center or colocation? Consider Blue Box Local, which is based on your choice of infrastructure and fully maintained by IBM data center’s team of OpenStack specialists. With either option, your cloud runs the same OpenStack deployment that is run for all of the other IBM Blue Box customers, day after day.

Figure 1: The IBM Blue Box OpenStack platform

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OpenStack API coverage

Block Storage API & Extensions Cinder v2.0

Compute API & Extensions Nova v2.0

Identity API & Extensions Keystone v3.0

Image Service API Glance v2.0

Networking API & Extensions Neutron v2.0

Object Storage API & Extensions Swift v1.0

Orchestration Service Heat v2.0

Telemetry Service Ceilometer v2.0

Supported GuestsLinux, Windows

Supported HypervisorsKVM,QEMU

Figure 1: IBM Blue Box Openstack worldwide data centers and network pops

IBM Blue Box Dedicated

IBM Blue Box Local

Single tenant, dedicated hardware

Fully managed and maintained by IBM data center’s team of OpenStack specialists

Located in your data center or Colocation

Available in IBM SoftLayer® data centers across the globe

No capex expenditure on hardware

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1 IBM Center for Applied Insights, “Under cloud cover: How leaders are accelerating competetiv differentiation.” October 2013.

2 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2014 Vendor Analysis, August 2014, #250238.

3 IDC: U.S. IT Buyer Survey Shows Outsorcers Bring Strength to Cloud, Doc# 248127, May 2014.

4 Technology Business Research (TBR), Hybrid Cloud Customer Research, June 2014.

About Blue Box, an IBM Company Blue Box, an IBM Company, delivers Private Cloud as a Service (PCaaS) to customers worldwide in both hosted and on-prem versions. Each Blue Box Cloud runs on dedicated hardware, powered by OpenStack and fully managed by our team. Blue Box Cloud delivers the benefits of public and private clouds in one offering and provides the control, performance and security customers need in a wide range of industries, including healthcare and life sciences, financial services, media and entertainment, gaming, technology and retail.

Learn more about Blue Box at blueboxcloud.com or on Twitter @bluebox.

Why IBM? IBM is committed to an open interoperable cloud environment and to the success of OpenStack. IBM ranks second in contributions to OpenStack-integrated projects, and more than 400 employees are active in code stability and quality efforts.1 IBM also brings the experience of thousands of private cloud engagements and a 30-year history of delivering business value through managed IT services. IBM was named a leader in IDC’s MarketScape on Worldwide Cloud Professional Services Vendor Assessment,2 the top provider of IaaS public or private cloud by enterprises in a recent IDC survey,3 and a leading provider of current hybrid cloud implementations by Technology Business Research.4

For more information To learn more about IBM Cloud OpenStack Services, contact your IBM representative or visit: open.ibmcloud.com

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