Blue Box has launched a new enhanced version of its Blue Box Cloud product, targeting enterprise IT buyers who have high demands with regard to performance and service levels.
Blue Box Cloud Enterprise edition complements the standard edition of Blue Box Cloud. The Enterprise Edition features Dell PowerEdge R630 servers running the Intel® Xeon® processor family E5-2600 v3 with hyper-threading. Blue Box Cloud Enterprise servers offer 96 physical cores and 96 hyper-threads, offering an effective 192 cores each. This configuration also offers double the RAM and storage for the hypervisor. Dell also provides servers for the object storage, running OpenStack Swift. Block storage, based on OpenStack Cinder, is provided by Nimble Storage with their feature rich and high performance Adaptive Flash platform.