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

Business Continuity Assessment Tool

How does your business continuity plan compare to the market average?  Use this interactive tool from EMC and you’ll be able to find out.  For example, how does your site’s average yearly number of outages compare?  How does your company compare to the market average for testing and validating your DR capabilities? Use this tool, share it...

“Database scaling ranks at the top of the list of most common problems software architects are challenged with,” Bluelock Solutions Architect Jake Robinson explains.

“Relational databases were never designed to scale any distributed model like cloud,” he continues. “Because apps are now expected to be available to anyone in the world, we now need to rethink how we do database design.”

1. Identify the Problem

“The first step to scaling your relational database is to identify where the bottleneck is...

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

OMG! 10 high-tech breakups and hookups coming this year

Valentine’s Day came a day late to include this gem in last week’s Cloud News Report, but it was worth saving to share this week. In this InfoWorld slideshow, Robert Cringely covers the top 10 high-tech “breakups and hookups” rumored or requested for 2013. This short, funny read highlights rumors of a “breakup”...

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...

A few years ago my jeep was nearly totaled when it was parked on the side of the street.  I was attending a football game downtown when someone decided to drive about 40 mph down a residential street, reach for something (therefore losing sight of said street) and subsequently plow into my parked car when they had a multi-tasking #fail.

My ride was towed to a shop that promised to fix it and return it to me in working order, good as new. I was  thrilled to be handed the keys a few weeks later...

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

5 Cloud Computing Advantages for the Healthcare Industry

The business case for cloud has the same basic components in every industry, but when drilled down closer into each specific use-case and benefits for specific industries, it can be helpful to see the full potential.  In this article CloudTweaks examines the top five advantages for the healthcare industry to use cloud...

We covered data gravity in part one of migration strategy best practices, and we covered connectivity of apps in part two of migration strategy best practices.  The final part of this series gets down to the nitty gritty… choosing the correct migration strategy.  In today’s blog post we’ll cover three types of migration strategies and we’ll touch on replication as well.  

BEST PRACTICE: Pick your migration strategy. 

Your best-fit migration strategy will be a function of the features of the...

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

DHS’s Margie Graves puts agile first

“Cloud-first” is a popular phrase these days as companies of all sizes work to find a new normal for their IT needs and developing applications.  But what about a “agility-first” approach instead of cloud?  In this FCW article, Camille Tuutti explains how Margie Graves, deputy CIO at the Department of Homeland Security instilled...

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...