Blue Box Brings Rapid Application Development to Enterprise Cloud Foundry and OpenStack Deployments with Mendix

BOSTON & SEATTLE--()--Mendix and Blue Box today announced a partnership to provide enterprises with next-generation hybrid cloud platforms powered by Cloud Foundry® and OpenStack®. By combining Mendix’s visual rapid application development capabilities with its fully managed OpenStack deployments, Blue Box is providing one of the fastest paths to building, deploying and running cloud-native, multi-channel business applications via its private cloud as a service, Blue Box Cloud.

CIOs driving digital transformations want to accelerate business innovation and harness the power of modern cloud infrastructure, including open source. At the same time, with traditional programming methods unable to keep pace with growing demand for multi-channel applications, they’re turning to modern app delivery approaches that allow apps to be built rapidly, deployed instantly and changed easily.

By partnering with Mendix, Blue Box is bringing Mendix’s signature visual, model-driven development capabilities to enterprise OpenStack deployments. Rapid developers can leverage the Mendix App Platform to quickly build multi-channel, multi-device applications for native OpenStack deployment with the full advantage of Cloud Foundry provisioning and deployment. Apps built on Mendix can be deployed to Blue Box Cloud with one click.

“Many of our customers need the fastest, most efficient development tools and environments available,” said Hernan Alvarez, chief product officer at Blue Box. “With Mendix, those customers have a powerful new option to move from development to production at the speeds they need to compete and win.”

The partnership offers enterprises greater speed and flexibility as modern business applications rapidly built on the Mendix platform accentuate and accelerate the value and advantage of Blue Box deployed and managed OpenStack environments. Blue Box Cloud is a managed, hosted private cloud on dedicated hardware, powered by OpenStack and available and scalable on-demand. It combines the major benefits of public cloud (agile provisioning, ease of use and fast implementation) with the major benefits of private cloud (predictable economics and performance, data sovereignty and environment control).

“The powerful combination of Mendix and Blue Box allows IT and their empowered business counterparts to harness a development paradigm six times faster than traditional programming and one of the fastest paths to Cloud Foundry and OpenStack deployments based on Blue Box,” said Mark Rogers, VP of business development of Mendix.

About Mendix
Mendix is the app platform as a service provider for the enterprise. We enable companies to rapidly build, integrate, deploy and share multi-device business applications faster and with better results, effectively driving ROI in days, not months. For more information, visit www.mendix.com and follow the company on Twitter @Mendix.

About Blue Box
Blue Box delivers Private Cloud as a Service (PCaaS) to a worldwide customer base on a technology platform which leverages decades of operational expertise in cloud and distributed systems. Blue Box Cloud® is 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 and provides the control, performance, and security customers need in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, digital media & entertainment, gaming, technology and retail. Learn more about Seattle-based Blue Box at bluebox.net or find Blue Box on Twitter @bluebox.

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Contacts

For Mendix:
PAN Communications
Mike O’Connell, 617-502-4300
mendix@pancomm.com
or
For Blue Box:
Cathey Communications
Robert Cathey, 865-386-6118
robert@cathey.co

Release Summary

Mendix and Blue Box today announced a partnership to provide enterprises with next-generation hybrid cloud platforms powered by Cloud Foundry® and OpenStack®.

Contacts

For Mendix:
PAN Communications
Mike O’Connell, 617-502-4300
mendix@pancomm.com
or
For Blue Box:
Cathey Communications
Robert Cathey, 865-386-6118
robert@cathey.co