DevOps startup BoxBoat has become the latest target of IBM’s acquisition spree, which has seen the giant acquire 11 companies over the past year.
The tech giant acquired its eleventh company weeks ago after closing the purchase of application and network performance management company Turbonomic. Other companies acquired by IBM include 7Summits, Waeg, Taos, MyInvenio, StackRox, Nordcloud, WDG, TruQua Enterprises, and Instana.
Back in 2019, IBM made headlines in the tech world by acquiring Red Hat, one of the world’s biggest Information Technology (IT) in the world, for $34 billion.
John Granger, senior vice president of IBM’s hybrid cloud services, referred to the plans to acquire BoxBoat by stating:
“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, no cloud modernization project can succeed without a containerization strategy, and BoxBoat is at the forefront of container services innovation.”
The startup was founded back in 2017 in Bethesda to help clients to deploy containers and Kubernetes for cloud solutions. Since then, it has served as an advisor to many Fortune 100 companies and government agencies, as well as established partnerships with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Tim Hohman, CEO and Co-Founder of BoxBoat, said BoxBoat was founded with the “idea that containers and DevOps would become an industry standard with the potential to transform enterprise IT with lightning-fast application deployment workflows.”
Now, 4 years later, a report by StackRox titled “State of Container and Kubernetes Security” found that 91% of organizations around the world are using Kubernetes technology to orchestrate containers, while 75% are actively using it in production.
The DevOps startup will now join IBM Global Business Services’s increasingly popular Hybrid Cloud Services, allowing the giant to capitalize on the increasing demand for Kubernetes technology, providing assistance at every step of the deployment and upkeep stages.
