ComputeNext Selected as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner


Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) June 09, 2015

ComputeNext announced today that it is a Red Herring Top 100 North America award winner. The Red Herring Top 100 North America awards recognize the leading private companies from the region, celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries.

ComputeNext was selected as a Top 100 winner because the company brings a unique cloud brokerage platform to the market. Its Global Cloud Marketplace is a platform which enables cloud service commerce, provisioning, and management from providers in over 40 locations worldwide. This platform is also available as a white-label solution which can be offered as a Marketplace-as-a-Service or a custom deployment for telecommunications companies, service providers, and large IT resellers/distributors. The platform can be rapidly deployed and customized for partners based on the cloud platforms, products, and services they wish to offer.

Red Herring Top 100 America enlists outstanding entrepreneurs and promising companies. It selects the award winners from approximately 1,200 privately financed companies each year in the US and Canada. Since 1996, Red Herring has kept tabs on these up-and-comers. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, Palo Alto Networks and eBay would change the way we live and work.

“In 2015, selecting the top achievers was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “In fact, we had the toughest time in years because so many entrepreneurs had crossed significant milestones so early. But after much thought, rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across North America. We believe ComputeNext embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. ComputeNext should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”

Sundar Kannan, CEO and Founder of ComputeNext, said, “We’re delighted to be recognized as an industry leader with this prestigious award. This year we have been rapidly growing and making a huge impact in the cloud brokerage segment. This award recognizes ComputeNext’s ability to offer a robust cloud marketplace solution for our customers that enables them to compete in the rapidly changing market and drive new revenue streams.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technological innovation and intellectual property, DNA of the founders, business model, customer footprint and addressable market. A review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowed Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in North America, complement this assessment of potential.

ABOUT COMPUTENEXT:

ComputeNext is a Bellevue, WA based cloud brokerage company pioneering how organizations search, discover, procure, and provision cloud infrastructure with a unique multi-cloud marketplace. As a leader in cloud service brokerage, ComputeNext enables end-to-end transactions across platform agnostic infrastructure. Holding the belief that a few cloud providers cannot satisfy the world’s computing demands, our mission is to promote choice and efficient computing through federation. This new ecosystem shares and optimizes cloud infrastructure and services to bring unprecedented business development opportunities and cost savings for both data centers and IT organizations.







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Growing Demand for Blue Box Cloud Drives Expanded North American and European Data Centers for OpenStack-Powered Private Cloud as a Service


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Customer growth in Europe and the United States is prompting Blue Box—a Seattle-based provider of on-demand OpenStack-powered private cloud as a service (PCaaS) solutions—to continue executing on its global capacity expansion. The company has expanded its relationship with Juniper Networks to build new capacity for its Blue Box Cloud solution at two data centers, one in London and the other at an existing facility in Ashburn.

The opening of the company’s first data center in the U.K. makes Blue Box Cloud available to European customers who require European Union (EU) data center residency.

This is the first full data center that Blue Box is building with integrated routing, switching and security technology exclusively from Juniper Networks. Blue Box will use Juniper Networks® SRX Series Services Gateways to secure its network, and has standardized on Juniper Networks MX480 3D Universal Edge Routers, QFX5100 data center switches and EX4200 Ethernet switches.

With the London expansion, Blue Box increases its global footprint for Blue Box Cloud to four locations, aligning with key markets in North America and EMEA. The London data center will meet EU data sovereignty requirements and join an existing European data center for Blue Box Cloud in Zurich.

The Ashburn data center expansion doubles the company’s current Blue Box Cloud capacity in that facility. The expansion is in response to growing demand from Blue Box Cloud customers requiring additional compute and storage resources to support new and growing application workloads hosted in the facility.

European Proof of Concept Program Underway

Blue Box recently announced a proof-of-concept (PoC) program for European customers evaluating OpenStack-powered private clouds. The program helps customers determine whether a hosted or an on-prem private cloud solution is better suited to their workloads. As part of the launch of the PoC and the new U.K. data center, Blue Box will sponsor Cloud Expo Europe in London on March 11 and 12. European companies interested in Blue Box Cloud can schedule one-on-one meetings with Blue Box senior management by signing up here. Blue Box is targeting participants in market sectors with specific workloads requiring control, performance, security and predictability in a variety of sectors, including media and entertainment, financial services, technology and retail.

Cloud Expo Europe Exhibition Information

Blue Box is exhibiting with the OpenStack Foundation and other OpenStack community members in the Open Cloud Park, Pod #3, at Cloud Expo Europe. In addition, Blue Box CTO and founder Jesse Proudman will speak during two sessions:

1.    Public vs Private vs Hybrid Cloud: Which One? (in the Open Cloud Theater)

2.    Interoperability on the Cloud: Myth or Reality? (Panel in Cloud Service Providers & Business Theater)

Private Cloud as a Service Benefits

PCaaS is a term describing private cloud infrastructure resources deployed in a managed environment, on hardware dedicated to specific customers. PCaaS provides the security, performance and cost stability of private cloud, coupled with the agility, scalability and handsfree management common to public clouds. Blue Box Cloud is an OpenStack-powered PCaaS solution that offers the additional benefits of Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service.

Growth Response to Customer Demand

“Blue Box Cloud delivers all of the benefits of a private cloud while removing the burden of day-to-day infrastructure operations. That combination means our customers can focus on developing applications that drive true value to their businesses. Existing customer growth and new deployments will continue to drive our plans for expanding both our data center footprint as well as capacity at existing facilities in the year ahead.”

— Matthew Schiltz, CEO of Blue Box

Networking and Security Powered by Juniper Networks

“We are proud to deliver the technology that will secure private cloud as a service to new customers as Blue Box continues to expand and grow. Blue Box, with its operational expertise and software capabilities, is successfully deploying reliable and secure private clouds quickly in production environments, and we are excited that Juniper will power the new facility in Europe – and the expanded facility in Ashburn.”

— Mike Marcellin, senior vice president of marketing and strategy at Juniper Networks

About Blue Box

Blue Box delivers Private Cloud as a Service (PCaaS) to customers worldwide. The company’s technology platform leverages decades of operational expertise in cloud and distributed systems to deliver Blue Box Cloud—a managed, hosted private cloud on dedicated hardware, powered by OpenStack and available and scalable on demand. Blue Box Cloud delivers core benefits of both public and private clouds in one offering. Blue Box meets the control, performance, and security needs of customers in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, digital media, gaming, technology and retail. Learn more about Seattle-based Blue Box at blueboxcloud.com or find Blue Box on Twitter at @bluebox.

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