IBM thinks inside Blue Box with OpenStack private-cloud purchase

IBM has snatched OpenStack cloud floater Blue Box, a 12-year-old firm delivering private cloud as a service. IBM claimed the marriage of the Big Blue and Blue Box would help it speed deployment of private clouds and simplify management of OpenStack clouds. Blue Box will be deployed to Bluemix, IBM’s programme to build, manage …

[Anonymous Coward]

"The giant claims it has 500 developers dedicated to working on cloud projects."

That says a lot for how much effort and customisation is required to get Open Source options like Open Stack to actually work in a commercial situation....