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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.

Making cloud computing cost models work for you

Budgeting for cloud computing requires a different approach than traditional IT usage. How does one leverage a pay-go structure compared to a three-year depreciation structure and make sure they come out ahead? In this SearchCloudComputing Christine Cignoli has interviewed several experts to come up with a list of tips and tricks for those...

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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Networking is an often-overlooked aspect of cloud IaaS.  Good networking will increase efficiencies.  Bad networking costs time and money, particularly if an issue arises with your configuration.

When working with enterprises our team speaks to a number of different people at different technical skill levels.  Here are some of the most frequently asked questions regarding vCloud networking.

What’s the difference between organization-level networking and vApp networking in vCloud director?

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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...

In our latest user questions posts, we’ve talked a lot about why enterprise businesses should move to the cloud, but not a lot about how.

This week’s submitted question is a great way to start with the “how” aspect of migrating to cloud, but it also deals with a lot of the “why” as well. 

This technical professional asks, “What are some best practices to migrate from a physical datacenter to a private, or public cloud offering?”

Bluelock Solutions Architect Jake Robinson tackles this question with...

Continued from the last two customer questions post, Bluelock Solutions Architect Jake Robinson tackles the third part of the customer question:

“Can enterprises go with the complete private cloud [approach]? Or, is it better to have some portion of public cloud [as part of your strategy] for DR, etc…?”

In Part 1, Robinson sets up the basis for private cloud within an enterprise and the changes and best practices to identify when using private cloud. In Part 2, Robinson talks about the benefits...

Continued from the last customer questions post, Bluelock Solutions Architect Jake Robinson tackles the second part of the customer question,

“Can enterprises go with the complete private cloud [approach]?  Or, is it better to have some portion of public cloud [as part of your strategy] for DR, etc…?”

In Part 1, Robinson sets up the base for private cloud within an enterprise and the changes and best practices to identify when using private cloud.  Today in Part 2, Robinson talks about the...

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

As 2012 comes to a close, or the world comes to a close (depending on who you ask), the blogs and news reports are full of predictions for 2013.  This week’s Cloud News Report is an aggregate of three of the top prediction articles for next year.  What did these stories miss?  What do you anticipate for 2013?  Dust off your crystal ball...