ARMONK, N.Y., July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced plans to acquire BoxBoat Technologies, a premier
DevOps consultancy and enterprise Kubernetes certified service
provider. BoxBoat will extend IBM's container strategy and
implementation services portfolio to further advance IBM's hybrid
cloud strategy and accelerate Red Hat OpenShift adoption
globally.
"Our clients require a cloud architecture that allows them to
operate across a traditional IT environment, private cloud and
public clouds. That's at the heart of our hybrid cloud approach,"
said John Granger, Senior Vice
President, Hybrid Cloud Services at IBM. "No cloud
modernization project can succeed without a containerization
strategy, and BoxBoat is at the forefront of container services
innovation."
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, BoxBoat helps clients
establish containers and Kubernetes as core enablers for cloud
solutions. Its track record of delivering complex cloud consulting
projects includes advising many Fortune 100 and government clients
on industry best practices, modernizing existing DevOps solutions,
and containerizing mission critical workloads.
Reflecting IBM's strong commitment to clients' successful
journey to cloud, BoxBoat builds on IBM's ongoing investment in
hybrid cloud services and driving growth within the
$200 billion cloud professional
services market.1 This news follows IBM's
acquisition of leading cloud services firms – Nordcloud and
Taos – which closed in the
first quarter of 2021 and significantly expanded IBM's multicloud
transformation, management expertise and capabilities.
Kubernetes and Containers Are Leading Drivers of Digital
Transformation
Containers and Kubernetes are two of the
leading drivers of enterprise digital transformation. Software
application containerization makes life easier for developers by
further abstracting computing infrastructure, and adoption of
enterprise container platforms is on the rise. By 2025, more than
85 percent of global organizations will be running containerized
applications in production, which is a significant increase from
fewer than 35 percent in 2019.2 At the same time,
Kubernetes -- open source software for deploying and managing those
containers -- is rapidly becoming the preferred way to build
digital services at scale and across clouds. The StackRox "State of
Container and Kubernetes Security" Fall 2020 report found that 91
percent of organizations are leveraging Kubernetes to orchestrate
containers, and 75 percent of organizations are actively using
Kubernetes in production.
BoxBoat will join IBM Global Business Services' fast-growing
Hybrid Cloud Services business, enhancing IBM's capacity to meet
rising client demand for container strategy and the critical
people and process components of the cloud transformation
journey. BoxBoat delivers a full suite of services that include
customized strategies for Kubernetes and Enterprise Container
Platform adoption, application containerization, DevSecOps,
training and enablement. BoxBoat guides enterprises on the right
tooling, business strategy, workflows and processes to meet their
DevOps goals.
"We founded BoxBoat on the idea that containers and DevOps would
become an industry standard with the potential to transform
enterprise IT with lightning fast application deployment
workflows," said Tim Hohman, CEO and
Co-Founder of BoxBoat. "Joining IBM will allow us to realize a
shared vision of helping clients innovate by successfully deploying
container-based applications on-premise and to the cloud."
BoxBoat's team is comprised of highly skilled engineers with an
average of nine years of industry experience, active open source
contributors, Kubernetes Admins, Kubernetes Application Developers,
and automation experts. Their highly skilled workforce holds
extensive cloud ecosystem certifications in Amazon Web Services,
Docker, GitLab, Google Cloud Platform, Hashicorp, Kubernetes, and
Microsoft Azure technologies.
The company also holds partnerships with Amazon Web Services,
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. BoxBoat was also the
first GitLab Certified Professional Services Partner.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. It
is expected to close this quarter.
About IBM
To learn more about IBM Global Business Services, please
visit: https://www.ibm.com/services.
About BoxBoat Technologies
BoxBoat Technologies is the
premier DevSecOps and digital transformation consultancy, helping
commercial and public sector enterprises achieve digital
transformation by delivering software faster. BoxBoat's core
competencies include aiding customers with a customized strategy
for the adoption of Kubernetes, cloud native technologies, and
automation. BoxBoat is committed to empowering companies as they
embark on their DevSecOps journey, so they can focus on building
cutting-edge products.
Media Contact:
Jeannine Kilbride
IBM External Relations
jkilbri@us.ibm.com
860-997-6277
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1 Estimate based on IDC 2024
projections for cloud managed services and professional
services.
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2 Gartner, Best Practices for Running
Containers and Kubernetes in Production, Arun Chandrasekaran, 4
August 2020.
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