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The Cloud News Report is a weekly list of our top three favorite cloud computing articles from the past week.

Sears Turning Old Department Stores Into Data Centers

One of the most ingenious ideas when it comes to making lemonade out of lemons, Sears recently announced its unused retail store spaces will begin to be converted into datacenters in order to make use of the large, unused square footage and help the company climb out of recent losses from their core business. In this Fast Company...

What to Expect When You’re In the Cloud: First year tips, tricks and tutorials is a series of posts appearing weekly that will highlights the unique experiences, questions and successes individuals have their first year in the cloud. Posts are based on clients and non-clients alike. To submit your question, or story, tweet @Bluelock.

Continuing our series highlighting first year lessons learned and questions answered, today’s question focuses on vertical and horizontal scaling.

“How can users...

The Cloud News Report is a weekly list of our top three favorite cloud computing articles from the past week.

To Understand Just How Much The Cloud Will Change The World, Look At Toyota

This article isn’t from this week, but it’s popped up again recently as a prime cloud use case.  In this Business Insider article Julie Bort highlights how cloud has completely changed the world in which Toyota IT operates.  Toyota uses cloud for website and apps and attests to the cloud helping to free up staff to...

If you’re just beginning to learn about cloud-based RaaS, you likely have a lot of questions. You could spend days, weeks or even longer researching the technological advances behind each solution, the services included and the capabilities available for your workloads. 

But, you have to start somewhere, and we want to help point you in the right direction. Here is the simplest explanation of cloud-based RaaS in 60 seconds or less: 

Cloud makes DR easy and affordable. 

Recovery-as-a-Service is...

How much do you know cloud-based disaster recovery? 

Recovery-as-a-Service, commonly referred to as RaaS, enables organizations to recover critical IT resources with increased efficiencies and complete effectiveness when an adverse situation strikes.  Cloud-based RaaS is nothing like traditional disaster recovery (DR) solutions of the past. Cloud-based RaaS users are able to install one piece of software (not an agent) which includes a control VM as well as an appliance on all participating...

How do you failover to the cloud? Bluelock has partnered with the replication software provider, Zerto for its leading RaaS solution. To demonstrate how their disaster recovery technology takes the pain out of replication and recovery in the cloud, watch the "Disaster Recovery with VMware's vCloud Director" video below.

Bluelock’s RaaS solution leverages Zerto’s replication software to integrate seemlessly with VMware’s vCloud Director. Their complete vCloud 5.1 integration includes...

The Cloud News Report is a weekly list of our top three favorite cloud computing articles from the past week.

 

Why IT is Struggling to Build Private Clouds

This comprehensive Information Week article by Charles Babcock, with Chris Murphy, does a fantastic job of covering the landscape of private cloud options, their strongpoints and their liabilities. Babcock explains not only the impact of Amazon, VMware and Hyper-V technological capabilities, but also explains what OpenStack’s intentions were,...

Do you know why your peers are using the cloud? Are you interested in cloud-based DR, but want to understand more about the service before you start talking to vendors?

Cloud-based Disaster Recovery is Growing Rapidly

Cloud-based Disaster Recovery (DR) is rapidly growing among cloud users and hearing two providers talk about the topic is a great way to learn what's worked in the past and what may work in the future. According to research compiled by Zerto, DR is one of the top three popular uses...

This is a series of posts appearing weekly that highlights the unique experiences, questions and successes individuals have their first year in the cloud. Posts are based on clients and non-clients alike. To submit your question, or story, tweet @Bluelock.

Today's question focuses on a strategic topic that is dealt with even before beginning a first-year cloud implementation.

"Does it make a difference if you are migrating an old app or starting with a new app in the cloud? What about if the...

A lot has changed in the disaster recovery (DR) space in a relatively short timespan. Thanks to emerging technologies, DR has evolved from a plan focused on cleaning up after a disaster to a plan that focuses on getting your core applications back up and running at full capacity in the shortest amount of time you can afford.

A lot of those changes come from advances in Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) technologies. Compared to Backup-as-a-Service, RaaS offers a more holistic, complete protection...