IBM has acquired Blue Box Group, a managed private cloud provider built on OpenStack. Blue Box is a privately held company based in Seattle that provides businesses with a private cloud as a service platform, based on OpenStack. Customers benefit from the ability to more easily deploy workloads across hybrid cloud environments.
Financial details were not disclosed.

Through Blue Box, IBM will help businesses integrate their cloud-based applications and on-premises systems into OpenStack-based managed cloud. Blue Box also strengthens IBM Cloud's existing OpenStack portfolio, with the introduction of a remotely managed OpenStack offering.

IBM currently plans to continue to support Blue Box clients.