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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...

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

Non-IT sees Cloud Computing advantages, drives adoption

This SearchCloudComputing article by Alex Barrett gives a brief overview of the corporate cloud landscape within organizations.  Barrett quotes Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready as describing the current cloud adoption status as being drive by ‘not-IT’, often by the CFO, instead.  Barrett goes on to compare IT’s dragging...

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.                                    

Enterprises See Clear Advantage of Cloud Computing and BYOD Combo

Two of the hottest topics of 2012 come together in Fernanda Aspe’s SearchCloudComputing article.  Aspe uses a question-and-answer format to discuss not only BYOD and cloud, but also the impact the two trends have together.  How does one create a BYOD-compatible cloud strategy...

We hear a lot of great questions when we talk to people about cloud and rarely are two questions worded exactly the same way, giving us a new way of looking at similar problems with every new question.  We recently received a great customer question that covered several topic areas that are very common. 

This was this individual’s question about Infrastructure-as-a-Service and cloud:

“Can enterprises go with a completely private cloud [approach]?  Or, is it better to have some portion of...

Are you an experienced, agile java developer who wants to be a key contributor to developing a highly differentiating product in one of the fastest growing markets, cloud computing?

Do you want to continually learn on the job, try new technologies and develop against the cloud in a fast-paced environment?

If you answered, “Yes,” to the previous two questions, then you might be the right person to join Bluelock’s team.

Bluelock is currently hiring a Software Engineer.  This position reports to 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...

Cloud security is always the first concern for the Fortune 500 clients looking at Bluelock as their public cloud provider (and rightfully so). Public cloud, in general, has gotten a bad rap on the security front. Some simply use the concern as a way to discount the idea of public cloud infrastructure as a service as a viable option for their organization.

However, security professionals in any size organization are pleasantly surprised when I tell them about the security options in their Virtual...

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

10 Cloud Computing Pioneers  

In this InformationWeek article, Charles Babcock identifies ten innovators who helped to rewrite the rules of technology with cloud.  The list includes well-known Amazon names like Werner Vogels, Chris Pinkham and other non-Amazon individuals like Randy Bias and Jonathan Bryce.  Who would you put on your own top ten cloud...

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

Defining the Cloud Architect

Cloud is not only bringing change to existing IT careers, but it’s also bringing new jobs to light that weren’t needed in the past.  One of those jobs, as this Infoworld article describes it, is the Cloud Architect.  This article details the core skills an individual should have to use the title correctly and effectively....