<p>SEATTLE, WA, Dec 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --Blue Box, a leading cloud hosting and managed services company,today announced the availability of its new "Trade Up" program forcustomers who are dissatisfied with their current managed cloudapplication hosting platform provider. As part of this program, BlueBox is offering a limited time, 50% discount on standard recurringmonthly service fees for the first three months of an annualcontract. With nearly 600 clients including MTV, VH1, Seeking Alpha,Pivotal Tracker, Agawi, and Crowdstar, Blue Box provides a highlyautomated application infrastructure that enables customers to focustheir energy on building and improving their Web applications.</p><p>"The past few months have seen a number of critical data centeroutages which brought a number of high profile Web applications totheir knees. Every minute that an application is down, someone islosing money and potentially customers," said Jesse Proudman, CEO ofBlue Box. "Blue Box maintains one of the highest uptime rates in theindustry and because we own and manage the entire infrastructurestack, we're able to remediate issues significantly faster than thetypical hosting provider. We're kicking off this 'Trade Up' promotionto showcase the benefits of the Blue Box solution and are confidentthat once companies give us a try, they'll become customers forlife."</p><p>Blue Box has built a significant amount of intellectual propertyfocused on orchestrating the infrastructure that supports criticalapplications, enabling their customers to focus on building betterapplications. Blue Box's ownership of the hardware infrastructureillustrates its core philosophy and commitment to owning the entirecustomer experience and assists in providing unparalleled"white-glove" service. As the company acquired additional customers,Blue Box began to codify many of its best practices to automate itsplatform service. In addition, Blue Box leverages an assortment ofopen source technologies including OpenStack, EMC Razor and Opscode'sChef coupled with Blue Box intellectual property and technologies.</p><p>About Blue Box</p><p><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/blue-box-announces-trade-up-managed-cloud-application-hosting-promotion-2012-12-18">Keep reading...</a></p>