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Failover to the Cloud with Disaster Recovery [Video]

May 16, 2013 by Jon Corwin

Failover to the Cloud

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...

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How Are Your Peers Using Cloud for DR?

May 15, 2013 by Diana Nolting
Hear from Your Peers: Disaster Recovery Services and Private Cloud DR

Do you know why your peers are using the cloud? Are you interested in cloud-based DR, but want to understand more about the service before you start talking to vendors?

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...

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Why has cloud-based DR changed the game?

May 10, 2013 by Diana Nolting
Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery as a Service

A lot has changed in the disaster recovery (DR) space in a relatively short timespan. Thanks to emerging technologies, DR has evolved from a plan focused on cleaning up after a disaster to a plan that focuses on getting your core applications back up and running at full capacity in the shortest amount of time you can afford.

A lot of those changes come from advances in Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) technologies. Compared to Backup-as-a-Service, RaaS offers a more holistic, complete protection...

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How to Implement a DR Strategy that Works: Recovery in the Cloud

May 9, 2013 by Diana Nolting

Much like after you are in a car accident is the wrong time to buy car insurance, the moment a disaster strikes is too late to put a recovery solution in place.

Disaster recovery isn’t new by any means, but Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) is hitting a maturation point in the marketplace to become the most cost-effective, reliable, efficient solution available to any virtualized business. RaaS is a holistic approach to DR that is testable, trusted and flexible with a low barrier to entry.

I...

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Bluelock Launches Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service Solution

May 7, 2013 by Diana Nolting

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...
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Defining Cloud-based Recovery: To-Cloud vs. In-Cloud

May 6, 2013 by Diana Nolting

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...

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Vote VMworld Session 5312: Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service featuring eMeter, a Siemens Business

May 3, 2013 by Diana Nolting

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. 

 

Session #5312: Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service featuring eMeter, a Siemens Business

with Bluelock and eMeter, a Siemens Business
 

Summary: 

In this session, Bluelock CTO, Pat O’Day, discusses Bluelock’s holistic approach to cloud-based RaaS and Bryan Bond of eMeter...

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Vote VMworld Session 5421: Architecting the Dynamic Datacenter

May 2, 2013 by Diana Nolting

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. 

 

Session #5421: Architecting the Dynamic Datacenter

with Bluelock and TW Telecom
 

Summary: 

Many organizations using cloud complain of network problems with latency, especially when pushing high volumes of data, and even when they aren’t. As dynamic as Virtual...

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Vote for VMworld Session 5478: Simplifying Disaster Recovery

May 2, 2013 by Diana Nolting

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. 

 

Session #5478: Simplifying Disaster Recovery

with Bluelock and eMeter, a Siemens Business
 

Summary: 

Disaster Recovery can be expensive, complicated, time consuming, and end up not working when it’s needed. In this session, we’ll walk through how to build a DR plan...

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Vote for VMworld Session 5189: Reference Architectures for Software Defined Disaster Recovery

May 1, 2013 by Diana Nolting

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. 

 

Session #5189: Reference Architectures for Software Defined Disaster Recovery 

with Bluelock and Zerto 

Summary: 

It’s not 2011 anymore. Disaster Recovery solutions that seemed robust and innovative just two years ago are becoming obsolete today. Flexible...

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