Posted by Nathan Kaiser about about 1 year ago...
We just made it back from a wonderful week in Vegas for RailsConf 2009. It was great to meet such a huge group of people who were very supportive of our product offering. Having your value proposition affirmed by such a strong community makes any event wonderful. Following up on an excellent event, we’re now heading off to the Seattle 2.0 Awards. We’re really excited to have been a Premier sponsor of this event and feel like it’s a great way to give back to the Seattle startup community. What is the Seattle 2.0 awards you ask? A description is below:
The Seattle 2.0 Awards recognizes the amazing accomplishments of the best of over 300 Seattle area technology startups (despite the challenging economy), and the exceptional people who are behind their heroic efforts. We will single out the very best of the best, as judged by the people who knows best: their peers in the startup community. So nominate your favorites, make sure you and your colleagues vote for them, and then attend the awards ceremony on May 7.
The event will be streamed live on the internet, so we encourage you all to check in and watch the festivities. Blue Box Group CEO Jesse Proudman will be presenting the award for Seattle’s Best Startup CEO at approx. 7:30pm Pacific. You can view the stream here: http://www.seattle20.com/awards/live/.
We’ll have a full write up about the adventures from RailsConf and tonight’s awards posted this week.
Until then!
Blue Box Group
Posted by Nathan Kaiser about about 1 year ago...
We’ve just announced an exiting new partnership today with a Company called Gear6. This partnership allows us to offer a Memcached-as-a-service offering that allows customers to offload memcached from their servers onto a highly available offering. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling this product out for testing among customers. More information will be posted up on our site over the next few weeks, but get in touch with us if this is something that sounds interesting to you!
The press release follows!
LAS VEGAS, NV - (Marketwire) - 05/06/09 - RAILS CONF - Blue Box Group (www.blueboxgrp.com), a leader in Rails hosting and web management services, and Gear6 (www.gear6.com), the leading provider of scalable Memcached solutions, announced today a partnership to develop and deliver a highly available Memcached-as-a-Service (MaaS) solution which will be available to all Blue Box Group customers.
“We’re very excited about this caching service,” said Stephen Balukoff, Chief Technology Officer at Blue Box Group. “Memcached is already an integral part of all the clustered Ruby on Rails and other websites we host. Gear6 already has a highly available and scalable Memcached solution with built-in clustering and replication. By augmenting this solution with features that allow us a lot of flexibility in our managed hosting environment, and eventual integration with our Box Panel customer interface, we will be able to provide a highly available, highly flexible Memcached solution to all our customers. And all this at a lower overall cost to the customer.”
“Managed hosting and cloud services are the next platforms for Gear6 Web Cache,” said Joaquin Ruiz, Executive Vice President of Products at Gear6. “That is why we are excited to be working with Blue Box Group to develop interfaces and services into Gear6 Web Cache for hosted applications requiring Memcached. We are thrilled with the popularity and production use of Web Cache at the origin sites of leading social media companies. By integrating services that plug into managed hosting and cloud providers, many more sites will have affordable access to our scalable and persistent Memcached services.”
Availability
Blue Box Group will begin its private beta of these highly available Memcached services this week. Service availability for all Blue Box Group customers should be deployed by the end of May, with integration into Blue Box Group’s Box Panel interface following shortly thereafter.
About Blue Box Group
Blue Box Group is in the business of providing easy, affordable and reliable hosting solutions. They approach web hosting, virtual servers and dedicated servers differently. Blue Box Group knows web technology and scalable ruby on rails deployments, with experience in both small deployments on virtual servers, to large dedicated server clusters taking millions of hits a day. Blue Box Group has solutions to the rails hosting problems you’ll experience as you grow. To learn exactly how Blue Box Group can help your business grow online, visit http://www.BlueBoxGRP.com.
About Gear6
Gear6 is the first and leading provider of scalable Memcached solutions, enabling high-growth media, social networking and content aggregation web sites to deliver and scale dynamic applications and content. By focusing on the emerging need for a dedicated web caching tier, Gear6 solutions dramatically improve the scalability of web applications and databases, improving quality of service and reducing infrastructure cost. Gear6’s flagship offering is Gear6 Web Cache, a Memcached protocol-compliant solution that enables web site developers and operators to scale web services and applications, to save money, rack space, power and time, to protect users and sites from failures and traffic spikes, and to manage all aspects of caching operations. To learn more about Gear6 Web Cache, visit www.gear6.com.
Press contact:
Nadja Blagojevic
415.875.7493
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Posted by Nathan Kaiser about about 1 year ago...
Let Blue Box Group’s Rain Coat Keep You Warm and Dry.
Blue Box Group’s new API combines the flexibility of cloud computing with the power of traditional hosting.
TACOMA, WASHINGTON – May 5th, 2009 – Everywhere you look in today’s technology news, you’re bound to see the term “cloud computing”. The hype cycle is in full effect with this emerging technology, and aggressive server virtualization practices becoming well known. However, the benefits of cloud computing aren’t always obvious, the challenges are often masked, and the associated support is expensive if it exists at all.
At Blue Box Group, we don’t see why this has to be the case. We’re proud to introduce a powerful API solution to the stormy execution of cloud computing. Aligning with our mantra that hosting should be simple regardless of how its rendered this “rain coat” utilizes a powerful API to deploy new on demand computing “blocks” on top of our own hardware. Coupling this powerful API to deploy new on demand computing “blocks” with Blue Box Group’s top of the line hardware and the capability to manage DNS, email accounts and more, this new platform brings together the power of dedicated hosting with the flexibility of virtualization. This unique approach provides significant benefits over the “traditional” cloud computing model by providing access to dedicated resources including RAID 10 SAS disk arrays and large processing power.
Additionally, all our hosting packages provide access to Blue Box Group’s proven support. As a customer, you have access to a seasoned team of technology experts who have handled large Rails deployments for Fortune 500 media and television companies, as well as Mom-and-Pop operations. Furthermore, there are no minimum monthly fees for access to this support: It comes bundled with every one of our packages. All of this is backed by Blue Box Group’s “Up and Running” support that provides as much assistance as you need to get your site migrated and in production on our platform.
This exciting new tool is now in private beta exclusively at Blue Box Group. Please visit our website on Monday, May 11th to sign up and gain access to our API and see just how good this rain coat can feel. We expect a public release in Q3 2009.
Blue Box Group is proud to be a full service Rails hosting provider with in-house hosting customization; and Rain Coat is the next great addition to our already large product lineup. From our Content Delivery Network services, to our dedicated clusters, bundled email / DNS and domain registration services, you’re business will stay warm dry and profitable with us. Come experience how hosting should be.
Press Contacts:
Nathan Kaiser
Blue Box Group
1-800-613-4305
Posted by Nathan Kaiser about about 1 year ago...
We’ve done it! The booth is setup, and RailsConf is under way including Vegas shenanigans. Come check out our booth! You can’t miss us, just look for the 16’ tall Blue Box in the sky. We’ve got T-Shirts, Mugs, Mini-Tools, and all kinds of give-aways. We want you to have our swag!
Hope to see you tomorrow!
Blue Box Group
Posted by Nathan Kaiser about about 1 year ago...
Starbucks gave me a present this morning. It made my Friday!
3 Days Until Rails Conf! Keep the coffee flowing!
