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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...

Bluelock’s new Recovery-as-a-Service offerings deliver the benefits of a multi-tenant cloud with the latest recovery technology for a highly reliable, testable recovery solution. These 4-Series Virtual Datacenters enable organizations to recover critical IT resources with increased efficiencies and complete effectiveness when an adverse situation strikes.

“As a global provider, we know disasters can happen anytime, anywhere.  We’re confident in our selection of Bluelock for our cloud-based...

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

5 Ways to avoid costly cloud surprises

This comprehensive InformationWeek article from Charles Babcock identifies critical areas where cloud users might not be as knowledgeable as they should be. Babcock quotes the CEO of Cloudability Mat Ellis’s findings, which analyze cloud spending of 6,000 companies. Based on those findings, Ellis identified five steps to avoid cost surprises in cloud.

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

10 Quotes on Cloud Computing That Really Say it All

This short Forbes piece by Joe McKendrick is a fun break from the norm. In this article McKendrick has compiled his top 10 favorite quotes related to cloud computing from the past 15-20 years. The article includes quotes from Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs and Vivek Kundra. McKendrick aimed to compile quotes that best describe the mindset at...

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

Why VMware’s Hybrid Cloud Announcement Could be a Big Deal

There were a lot of news stories that came out in the past week that covered VMware’s announcement of their new stand-alone public cloud offering. This particular CIO story covered their take on why the announcement could be a “big deal” in the IaaS space and what it could mean for the landscape. Brandon Butler’s Network World...

Hindsight is 20/20, and it's easy to see where the gaps in your disaster recovery plan are after one hits. However, hindsight can be too late to save crucial systems that are required for your business to operate at its highest level.

We asked Bluelock Solutions Architect Jake Robinson to list the things that would be most important to consider before a disaster hits. After listing off the obvious like saving the lives of those around you, knowing your fire escape plan and calling 9-1-1 for...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week. 

Is Cloud Built to Fail or Built to Scale?

This blog by F5’s Lori MacVittie addresses a critical nuance of cloud architecture, “Is your cloud able to fail, as well as scale?” MacVittie establishes that many cloud architectures are designed to abandon the failed instances and redirect that traffic, in some cases auto-scaling to create new avenues. The abandonment of these...

The Infrastructure-as-a-Service industry is enjoying a period of tremendous growth right now. As a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of virtual datacenters hosted in the public cloud, Bluelock has seen this demand and growth opportunity in the industry first-hand. 

In response to both the industry forecasts and our own customer demand, Bluelock is proud to announce the opening of a new datacenter location in Las Vegas, NV. 

This new tier 4, SSAE Type II (formerly SAS 70) and SOC3...

When it comes to your cloud infrastructure, networking is more important than many people realize.  Good networking increases efficiencies and cuts down troubleshooting time. Bad networking, or poorly planned networking, however, will cost you time, money and productivity.

When you’re beginning to architect your cloud network there are a several questions you have to ask yourself according to Bluelock Client Services Engineer Charlie Tavernier.  By answering these questions not just for your...

Sometimes, it pays to have an opinion.

This could be one of those times for you, if you take about five minutes to fill out this survey sharing your thoughts on Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

By completing this IaaS Cloud Values survey you can enter-to-win one of four $250 Visa Gift Cards.

We want to hear from you, the end-user, on what you value most, what you want from cloud and what you plan to use cloud for in the future. This short market research survey aims at understanding the value of IaaS...