Posted by Jesse Proudman about about 1 year ago...
Blue Box Group is excited to host an upcoming NoSQL talk on April 14th at 6pm. Joe Williams will be speaking about CouchDB, and we’ll have a round table discussion on all kinds of NoSQL fun including Riak, MongoDB, etc… Refreshments will be provided, so come hang out for a few hours, and learn something new!
Join us at our offices at 206 1st Ave S. #300, Seattle WA 98104. The doors will be locked, so give us a call at 206-607-0663 when you arrive and we will come let you in.
Please RSVP via @blueboxgrp on Twitter, or to Jenni Serenbetz so we can make sure to have appropriate seating and food.
April Fools Update - Grant Goodale from ZenDorse will be speaking about using MongoDB as a persistent queue. We may also have a presentation on Riak but this is TBD.
April 9th Update Bradford Stephens has joined the speaker list. He will be discussing HBase.
– Blue Box Group
Posted by Jesse Proudman about about 1 year ago...
The Ruby community has come together to support young Ruby enthusiasts embark on a summer of development and engagement in the community.
We are excited to be a part of this event which has raised over $100,00 since last Wednesday. That money is going to a great cause, namely providing 20 interns with the opportunity to work on Ruby projects throughout the summer.
For more information or to apply, check out the Ruby Summer of Code event page.
Posted by Jesse Proudman about about 1 year ago...
NoSQL is a hot ticket right now. We had originally scheduled a Blue Box Group hosted NoSQL meetup for March 31st, but it turns out there’s a Hadoop event that night. With the goal of involving as many people as we can, we’re going to postpone our event and will post an updated date soon!
– Jesse Proudman
Posted by Jesse Proudman about about 1 year ago...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 15, 2010.
Blue Box Group understands that one of the most important things to its customers is security. This premier boutique hosting provider now has something that will ensure more peace of mind: SAS70 Type 1 certification.
SAS70 certification requires provider-customer transparency, security controls and safeguards when hosting and processing customer information and data.
This certification represents Blue Box Groups’ ongoing commitment to security in every aspect of its business.
“Security is a major concern when it comes to building our networks, systems and processes – both internally and for our customers,” says Blue Box Group’s Chief Technology Officer, Stephen Balukoff. “This audit represents a great opportunity to show how important security really is to us.”
In serving a wide range of industries, Blue Box Group’s certification signals an understanding of the complex and changing needs of growing businesses. “Many of our customers start out small, but as they grow their security needs also grow and change.” said CEO, Jesse Proudman. “Taking the guesswork out of scaling your site alongside your business is what we do best.”
SAS 70 demonstrates that service providers have adequate controls and safeguards in place to host or process data related to their customer base. Blue Box Group is the only Ruby on Rails oriented hosting provider that maintains its own SAS70 certification.
The company expects to receive SAS70 Type II certification later this year.
About Blue Box Group:
Founded in 2003, Blue Box Group has evolved quickly into a reliable provider of comprehensive, managed web hosting solutions. In a true spirit of collaboration, customers are considered partners in this approach to web hosting, virtual and dedicated servers, which seeks to find answers that propel success. In Blue Box Group, customers find experts in technology and scalable ruby on rails deployments they can call upon at any time. Blue Box Group delivers focus, dedication and quality service to each customer, ensuring the best managed hosting experience every time.
