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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...

Disaster Recovery (DR) has a lot of acronyms that come with it. Breaking the different kinds of DR into sub-categories and products, even more acronyms and terms come with each of those.  But, for Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS), there are really only two important sub-terms to know before you start exploring your options.  Each is named for the location that the workloads are being replicated from.

To-Cloud RaaS involves replicating to a cloud provider from a physical infrastructure or...

Voting for VMworld 2013 sessions run through Monday, May 6th at 5 p.m. PDT.  Below is a highlight of one of Bluelock's recommmended sessions for voting.  Please vote by visiting VMworld.com. Users must register a free account to vote. 

 

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

 

How big is cloud’s impact? Depends on who’s asking

Research can be done to support a number of views. Surveys in the world of cloud are no different. This Network World article by Brandon Butler examines the difference between vendor and independent surveys, and the middle ground between the two, specifically related to developer use.  Butler’s article showcases three different studies...

Voting for VMworld 2013 sessions run through Monday, May 6th at 5 p.m. PDT.  Below is a highlight of one of Bluelock's recommmended sessions for voting.  Please vote by visiting VMWorld.com. Users must register a free account to vote. 

 

As a Senior Manager at Deloitte, Krishna Marella has seen first-hand how the IT world has changed recently and how companies are dealing with...

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

GE Pivotal Announcement: Rewriting Rules of Big Data and Internet of Things

Today’s announcement of the launch of Pivotal’s enterprise PaaS offering has generated a lot of talk. Even more talk, though, was generated with today’s announcement of GE’s $105million investment in Pivotal. In this Silicon Angle article Dave Vellante explains what he believes GE’s investment will mean to the...

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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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...

If you're an organization or business unit looking for another reason to move to cloud, the new VMware Cloud Credits Purchasing Program could be your answer.

VMware Cloud Credits Purchasing Program is an easy way for your company to take on vCloud. Leverage this easy on-ramp to vCloud and watch your workloads and applications thrive.

VMware Cloud Credits work much like a gift card. First, you'll work with a trusted VMware Solution Provider to identify which workloads might be a good fit for...

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...